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		paulryanrogers on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AWS announces forks of Elasticsearch and Kibana Where is the controversy there? Did he sign a non-compete? NextCloud and OwnCloud Jenkins and Hudson More software is good. I'd say the MariaDB-is-better conclusion is controversial since the improves to Oracle's MySQL are substantial. At least around Innodb, and disregarding their embarrassingly bad bugs.

riku_iki on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

> Where is the controversy there? Did he sign a non-compete?

Controversy is that he accepted patches from OSS contributors, but assumed his own copyright on them, then sold his rights to big corp (Sun), which (Oracle) closed some sources, it is probably not very clean behavior.

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