Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 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 ...

Ah, it isn't what we rely on, but the tools and languages our users rely
on to make PostgreSQL useful.

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