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cooperate 26 November 2009 08:31
Traditionally the US authorities have been too much benevolent about
the monopoly interest of big companies. If at the other side of the
deal is an open source project, the decisions are never made in
favour of the interest of the consumer, and nobody seems to care that
much.
In Europe and everywhere else, open source projects are adopted by
companies and governments in the base of their technological value,
so Its not a surprise that the future of MySQL is a concern regarding
this takeover. Imagine that Microsoft wanted to buy Apple, or Intel
buy AMD (or the other way around). The same concern would arise.
Oracle claim that, as an open source program, MySQL is under no-one's
control. This is a lie to pass to the journalists to be sold to the
masses and the average people. After the take-over MySQL developers
will be in the Oracle payroll.
Instead of all that whining, Oracle should cooperate with the
European authorities to solve this without hurting the consumers.
Also, it is not nice for Europeans to decide under foreign pressure,
regarding internal procedures with private companies and consumers.
Worst for Oracle is if Europe rejects the deal at all.
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