MySQL inches towards closed source
I was a little taken off guard by MySQL's decision to end free community access to the latest source code for its popular database in an attempt to snag paying customers. In a nutshell, they have restricted the distribution of the source tarball only to paying subscribers. However, non-tarballed source code will continue to be available through the MySQL BitKeeper repository under the GPL. Of course, BitKeeper is a commercial application that I don't have, and won't purchase.
MySQL has a tremendous market share (50 percent among developers) and is virtually synomymous with Web 2.0 and the LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) stack.
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