Re: MySQL Gemini code

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> As some of you know, Nusphere is trying to sell MySQL with an additional
> transaction-based table manager called Gemini. They enabled download of
> the source code yesterday at:
>
> http://mysql.org/download3.php?file_id=1118
>
> Looking through the 122k lines of C code in the Gemini directory, it is
> pretty clear from a 'grep -i progress' that the Gemini code is actually
> the database storage code for the Progress database. Progress is the
> parent company of Nusphere.

And this press release

http://www.nusphere.com/releases/071601.htm

also explains why they had to do it this way. They disagreed
with the policy that every code added to the core system must
be owned by MySQL AB, so that these guys can sell it for
money in their commercial licenses.

IMHO, the MySQL community gives a few people far too much
credit anyway. The MySQL AB folks degrade contributions from
their community to "personal donations" to "Monty", which he
has to "scrutinize" and often rewrite so that they can stand
their (MySQL AB's) standards. Give me a break, but does the
entire MySQL community only consist of 16 year old junior
pacman players, or are there some "real programmers (tm)"
too?

But maybe Mr. Mickos told the truth, that there never have
been substantial contributions from the outside and nearly
all the code has been written by "Monty" himself (with little
"donations" from David). In that case, NuSphere's launch of
mysql.org was long overdue.

Jan

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