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A comment on Ask HN: When will mariadb stop hijacking MySQL commands/filenames?.

Re:Ask HN: When will mariadb stop hijacking MySQL commands/f... by tomkarho on Friday March 27, 2020 @01:30PM (#22704882)
They might have to eventually do the divergence if Oracle wins it's lawsuit against Google.

I wonder if the folks at MariaDb have taken that into account and planned accordingly? Calling themselves a drop-in replacement in my mind screams "we replicate their api's" which afaik is at the very heart of the aforementioned lawsuit.

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Re:Ask HN: When will mariadb stop hijacking MySQL commands/f... by hholst80 on Friday March 27, 2020 @02:33PM (#22705462)
And that is of no importance unless it is thought that APIs has originality and can be copyrighted much like a work of art like Shakespeare or Mozart.
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