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Instead of accusing me, maybe look at yourself. I correctly mentioned that it started as a fork of Sybase, and if you would have spent a minute with my first link, it's clearly mentioned that they refactored the codebase from C to C++ they completed with v2005. Of course there are still many parts in there for various reasons dating back more than 20 years, but it's now maintainable, refactored and internally documented. It's like Internet Explorer which started as a Mosaic fork, and there are still behaviours in IE11 and even in Edge (which started as fork of Trident from IE11) that date back to mid 1990s. Or with Half Life 2 and other Valve's Source-Engine video games - it all started from a Quake 1 engine fork, and you can still spot behaviours and there is still old stuff from ID software in crucial parts, even after like 20 years of refactoring.

And yes, it's good to have a choice. Some software is designed to run in combination with MSSQL. So it's good that they ported it to Linux.