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by cabalamat 6001 days ago
> He sold the product, and now he is actively undermining the product that he sold

Monty's actions leave a bad taste in my mouth too.

I've still signed the petition, because I think Oracle's intentions towards MySQL can only be bad -- they want to neuter it so people have to buy their expensive databases instead. This would not matter so much, except that MySQL is an important part of the technology infrastructure, particularly as part of the LAMP stack.