Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
by patrickaljord on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:02PM
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Not everything has to be about politics. Sometimes a big company investing in an open source database it already uses is just trying to improve its own infrastructure, not trying to hack your country.
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Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
by scarmig on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:14PM
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That's besides the point. Even if every single employee at Alibaba is well-intentioned (which is close enough to reality to be considered the case), in the end the government of the PRC has the capability to coerce the company to exert influence in a direction we almost certainly wouldn't like. The only question is whether the PRC would consider the trade offs worth it.
Re:Alibaba is leading a $27M investment in MariaDB
by sangnoir on Friday September 29, 2017 @02:19PM
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> in the end the government of the PRC has the capability to coerce the company to exert influence in a direction we almost certainly wouldn't like.
It's open source- when that happens, you can fork it and influence it in the direction that you like. I mean if the GCHQ has an active github account[1] - I think the PRC gets a pass to publish open source, let alone Alibaba.