Monty on broken MySQL promises: Oracle's going to fork it up
Found on The Register on Thursday, 29 November 2012
Oracle will break the promises it made to European regulators on MySQL nearly three years ago, according to the open-source database's co-creator Monty Widenius. In fact, he says, it has already broken a few.
He also accused Oracle of obfuscating on security and bug fixes, as it has not released all-important test cases for MySQL 5.5.27.
He claimed that Oracle has already ceased to co-operate with the community on the development roadmap, with the giant only focusing on “one or two” areas for change – storage engine and replication.
This has worked so well in the past. Thanks to Oracle, ZFS is pretty much dead. Thanks to Oracle, LibreOffice took over and to keep his face Larry dumped the now dead OpenOffice onto the Apache project. The community will simply fork MySQL and continue with an open branch, supported by many of the big players. In the end, Larry will just ruin MySQL and drop it when it won't earn him any money.