| From: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Cornelia Boenigk <poppcorn(at)cornelia-boenigk(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-12 18:11:02 |
| Message-ID: | 20060212140952.P6751@ganymede.hub.org |
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On Sat, 11 Feb 2006, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> This highlights one of our vulnerabilities. Oracle bought InnoDB to
> attack MySQL, and we don't think we have a similar vulnerability.
>
> But there is so little money made in open source that small amounts of
> money (by Oracle standards) can easily gain control over companies that
> have embedded themselves in open source projects. Basically, to the
> extent these purchases can be used to harm MySQL, they can be used to
> harm us too.
How? What external projects (or companies) do we rely on for our code
base? As far as I know, we've been very careful about this, with the
biggest one that ever gets mentioned time and again being the whole
readline stuff ...
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