Dec 13 2009
Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL:
"Oracle is trying to buy Sun, and since Sun bought MySQL last year, Oracle would then own MySQL. With your support, there is a good chance that the EC (from which Oracle needs approval) could prevent this from happening or demand Oracle to change the terms for MySQL or give other guarantees to the users. Without your support, it might not. The EC is our last big hope now because the US government approved the deal while Europe is still worried about the effects."
If you're a web designer or developer, chances are you've worked with MySQL, whether by using software like ExpressionEngine, WordPress, Joomla, MODx, TextPattern, forum software, and pretty much any other web software out there that runs on a database. It's time to get together and prevent MySQL from becoming proprietary or worse, extinct.