Is MySQL Slowly Turning Closed Source?

mpol writes "Sergei from MariaDB speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27. It seems new testcases aren't included with MySQL any more, which leaves developers depending on it in the cold. 'Does this mean that test cases are no longer open source? Oracle did not reply to my question. But indeed, there is evidence that this guess is true. For example, this commit mail shows that new test cases, indeed, go in this "internal" directory, which is not included in the MySQL source distribution.' On a similar note, updates for the version history on Launchpad are not being updated anymore. What is Oracle's plan here? And is alienating the developer community just not seen as a problem at Oracle?"

Missed title opportunity

[Anonymous Coward]

"Is MySQL Slowly Turning TheirSQL?"

IMHO...

[ZeroPly]

Look, by no means FORK! am I a SQL expert, but I still feel FORK! compelled to express my FORK! opinon here. Face it folks, Oracle FORK! is evil. That said, if there is some way FORK! to create a parallel version, a version FORK! not intended to pay for a yacht, I would FORK! be all for it.

Re:Translation

[MaerD]

oracle is actually an acronym: One Rich Asshole Ceo, Larry Ellison

Damn! I should google everything....

[Anonymous Coward]

Shit, I didn't know that! I saw MariaDB and I didn't think to google to find out who or what that is supposed to be.

I guess I'm spoiled by proper editing and writing where it should have been phrased as such:

"Sergei from MariaDB, a MySQL Fork, speculated on some changes within MySQL 5.5.27."

But never mind, we should all google and research everything posted here because, not only do most folks talk out of their asses, but by missing some detail like that gives some pedant a chance to post something to make himself feel superior for knowing some esoteric and minor piece of information.

Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people

[maroberts]

I don't want LAPP...

Don't projects get Finn-ished when you use LAPP?

Just fork it

[jonwil]

Forking worked for Libreoffice, I dont see why it couldn't work for MySQL...

Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people

[RichardJenkins]

Clearly they were so overwhelmed by their success with OpenOffice they want to replicate it with MySQL.

slashdot should stop accepting questionmarks

[allo]

in the title of a story.

would prevent a lot of bad written summaries.

Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people

[M1FCJ]

At least he's not using FreeBSD, Apache, PostgreSQL and PHP...

Re:Translation

[Bill Dimm]

I believe it is One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people

[neonsignal]

anonymous "one" can argue that black is white and get killed on the next zebra crossing too

Re:Oracle doesn't care about developer people

[Greyfox]

Not many bad childhood memories for that. Unless you get caught at it. "Jimmy... what have we told you about using PHP? It'll make you go blind!"