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Re: Awesome!
by Fri13 on Thursday 17/Apr/2008, @11:22

"It becomes clearer why Nokia wants to buy Trolltech ;)"

I hope Nokia is not going to do same thing what Sun did for MySQL. They closed it's source...

This is big problem when company "owns" GPL software and then that company is sold out to other company what can cut all new code to be Closed Source and FOSS side is needed to make own fork.

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Re: Awesome!
by Anon Reloaded on Thursday 17/Apr/2008, @12:00

"I hope Nokia is not going to do same thing what Sun did for MySQL. They closed it's source... "

No they didn't - don't believe everything you see in awful slashdot editorials :) Everything that is currently GPL'd in MySQL is staying GPL'd, but further components developed by SUN may or may not be placed under a proprietary or non-GPL license. It's a net win for MySQL and its users.

Plus, Nokia would gain absolutely nothing by closing the source, and they would lose an awful lot, and they are smart enough to see this.

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