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Classic FUD

Posted Oct 8, 2009 19:50 UTC (Thu) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Classic FUD by pboddie
Parent article: Ingres Database 9.3 released

A regular fork is bad enough. A hostile fork from the parent company staged by some of the core developers (with an accompanying name change) is probably disastrous. If the company is bought by its worst arch-rival -- well, I don't think the outlook is good. I also prefer postgres, but hey, MySQL has its place (and it is not as an unsupported grassroots offering IMHO).


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Classic FUD

Posted Oct 9, 2009 10:15 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (subscriber, #28458) [Link]

[Citation needed]

The only similar situations I know of are Joomla and foswiki, two projects that seem to be significantly more alive than they were before the fork.

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