<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Oracle is saying that they'll cut any software packages they don't want back into the Open Source world to either prosper or die as it will.</div><br><div><div>On Apr 20, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Tim Watts wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hmm. So if Oracle owns Sun owns MySQL what might be MySQL's fate?<br><br><br>On Monday 20 April 2009 1:00:37 pm Jeff Lightner wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_bi_ge/oracle_sun;_ylt=Allhgn6y">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090420/ap_on_bi_ge/oracle_sun;_ylt=Allhgn6y</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Ez3ELuctxfbZMflI2ocA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Please consider our environment before printing this e-mail or attachments.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">----------------------------------<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">delete it. Thank you. ----------------------------------<br></blockquote><br>-- <br>I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually <br>happened.<br> -- Mark Twain<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Ale mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Ale@ale.org">Ale@ale.org</a><br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>