Monty Wants To Save MySQL

An anonymous reader writes "It seems as if the MySQL author is trying hard to win back control over MySQL. In his blog he calls upon the MySQL users to "Help keep the Internet free" by signing his petition. He fears that if Oracle buys Sun they automatically get MySQL which would spell doom for the project. But I have have mixed feelings with this call for help because after all mdash; who sold MySQL in the first place?"pa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04/1548235/Monty-Wants-To-Save-MySQL?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=10/01/04/1548235"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/01/04/1548235/Monty-Wants-To-Save-MySQL?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/M0gWJflL5ASoN-NgCoKjjC_h11A/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/M0gWJflL5ASoN-NgCoKjjC_h11A/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/M0gWJflL5ASoN-NgCoKjjC_h11A/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/M0gWJflL5ASoN-NgCoKjjC_h11A/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/UfEKde1vGTg" height="1" width="1"/

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