Hi Monty,
When reading Your comments, I became very sorry for You and MySQL.
With almost four years experience on MySQL on Windows, I have had no
problems of any kind. You and Your people are doing a great job both on the
software and on the support - other major players could learn from MySQL way
of doing this.
MySQL is probably the most (the only) successfull "open source" software
today, worldwide.
I also became upset. The Internet is surposed to be a free and open world.
Just because You / MySQL have worked hard on the software and technical, and
perhaps less considering the "marketing" - some other company finds a free
domain-name and starts making benefits / violations on Your efforts - and
all other peoples free efforts and contributions to MySQL.
This handling of NuSphere also violates the whole idea about "open source",
because anybody contributing free stuff now have to consider their
copyrights - and copyrights can only be protected by making "none open
protections" - and the "open source" idea is dead.
I propose we all support MySQL in their efforts on this issue, ex. by
sending our comments to NuSphere on sales@stripped
Yes, it does not says "mail: nusphere". Going to
http://www.nusphere.com/about/index.htm mention the email sales@stripped
and also mentioning "NuSphere Corporation is a Progress Software Company
formed to provide open source products and services" - and You can link to
the www.progress.com
Then you can start wondering why one software company wants to promote "open
source" by using another companys software - why is the Progress database
not good enough for NuSphere ???
Best regards
Peter
Copnehagen Denmark
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Widenius" <monty@stripped>
To: <mysql@stripped>
Cc: <win32@stripped>
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:38 AM
Subject: mysql.org
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