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Jason Robinson (jaywink@iliketoast.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 21:51:00 UTC Jason Robinson

Uproar: #MariaDB Corp. veers away from #opensource | InfoWorld

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3109213/open-source-tools/open-source-uproar-as-mariadb-goes-commercial.html
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1. Uproar: MariaDB Corp. veers away from open source
  
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  A new release of the MaxScale database proxy -- essential to deploying MariaDB at scale -- features a proprietary license
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- @mcscx@quitter.se (mcscx@quitter.se)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 22:44:27 UTC @mcscx@quitter.se
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  ... no good news. #MariaDB
  
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- lnxw48 (Linux Walt) (lnxw48@fresh.federati.net)'s status on Friday, 19-Aug-2016 23:00:28 UTC lnxw48 (Linux Walt)
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  @jaywink@iliketoast.net That is *very* bad news. I switched completely to #MariaDB because #Oracle was making proprietary-like moves with #MySQL. In one step, MariaDB Corp has leapfrogged Oracle. I won't say they've gone #evil yet, but this is definitely not a positive development.
  
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  Claes Wallin (韋嘉誠) repeated this.

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