On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Michael Widenius <monty@askmonty.org> wrote:
Hi!
"Joshua" == Joshua Partogi <jpartogi@scrum8.com> writes:
Joshua> All, Joshua> Many people were feeling uncertain whether to use MySQL when Sun was bought Joshua> by Oracle. I was one of those people and that is why I chose MariaDB for my Joshua> product now. But I need to know what is the plan for MariaDB in the future? Joshua> Would there be any chance that MariaDB will be sold to another company just Joshua> like MySQL got sold to Sun? Or would MariaDB always be a community owned?
Monty Program Ab, who is driving MariaDB is setup as an employee owned company. You can easily verify it from here: http://askmonty.org/wiki/The_hacking_business_model
This is reflected in everyones employee contract and in how we work every day.
This means, in practice, is that Monty Program Ab is not setup as a company that is to be sold as there is no big profit any owner can get by selling it. Instead our plan for the future is to get enough income so that we can all afford to spend all our time on working on MariaDB development.
The content in that URL states that MPAB employees have shared copyright on their contributions. I assume that MPAB has shared copyright on all contributions. Couldn't someone buy MPAB to get shard copyright to all contributions and the MariaDB trademarks? I don't question your intent but I don't see how MPAB cannot be sold or would not have value. -- Mark Callaghan mdcallag@gmail.com