{"id":1598,"date":"2009-10-25T03:41:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-25T08:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1598"},"modified":"2009-10-25T03:41:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-25T08:41:44","slug":"brian-aker-debates-with-richard-stallman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/10\/25\/brian-aker-debates-with-richard-stallman","title":{"rendered":"Brian Aker debates with Richard Stallman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <a href=\"http:\/\/foss.my\/\">foss.my<\/a> 2009, <a href=\"http:\/\/krow.livejournal.com\">Brian Aker<\/a> asked Richard Stallman at his keynote, about the Oracle\/Sun acquisition (with a focus on MySQL), with regards to the parallel licensing approach used by MySQL. Brian was referring to:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nAs only the original rights holder can sell commercial licenses, no new forked version of the code will have the ability to practice the parallel licensing approach, and will not easily generate the resources to support continued development of the MySQL platform.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>from Richard&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keionline.org\/ec-mysql\">Letter to the EC opposing Oracle&#8217;s acquisition of MySQL<\/a>. Listen to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lrVayqOHbZw\">discussion between Brian and Richard<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lrVayqOHbZw&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><\/object><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Brian%20Aker%20debates%20with%20Richard%20Stallman&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F10%2F25%2Fbrian-aker-debates-with-richard-stallman&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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