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Open Source Crowd Turns On One Of Its Own

Posted by tadelste on · 4 comments
Forbes.com; By Daniel Lyons 		Mail this story
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NEW YORK - It’s been a rough week for Marten Mickos, the chief executive of open source database maker MySQL AB. First his most dreaded rival, Oracle (nasdaq: ORCL - news - people ), acquired a company that supplies a key piece of MySQL’s software, a move that could make life difficult for Uppsala, Sweden-based MySQL, which has the most popular open source database.

If that wasn’t bad enough, Mickos is being denounced as a traitor by noisy fanatics in the open source software community because last month he dared to make a deal with SCO Group (nasdaq: SCOX - news - people ), a company reviled by fans of Linux and other open source software.

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Comments (4)

tuxchick ·
I think the guy is a lost cause. But good on you for your blog post.
DrDubious ·
I think Lyons has just chosen "Hating Linux and belittling people who use and like Linux" as his "schtick". Just a specialized form of arrogance being used to create a distintive trademark.

Not worth giving this bozo traffic.
richo123 ·
Forbes and Foxnews, the big money shills. In the end it does not matter because Linux costs less than M$ so anyone not using it in the business world will be a loser.

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