From: Claudio Nanni
Date: December 14 2009 6:59am
Subject: Re: Help saving MySQL
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Totally agree.
But in the moment you sell something you lose control on it, and one of 
the more or less foreseeable risks is exactly what is happening,
and worst nightmare become truth.

Cheers

Claudio


Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> "Due to selling MySQL to Sun, Widenius earned about 16.6 million € in 
>> capital gains <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gain> in 
>>     
>
> So, he got paid for his contribution to the world.
> Is that so bad?  MySQL has allowed people to make
> much more money than that.  It is a small amount of
> the worldwide earnings from on the product he created.
>
> 	Neil
>
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