Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases
by abhinav22 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:30PM
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But isn’t PostgreSQL and (sorry if I got the name wrong) MariaDB also open source?
I think the success of SQLite is the small size / no installation, but I agree it could only become as popular as it currently is due to its open source nature.
Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases
by zhouyisu on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:35AM
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SQLite is good and open source.
I've tried MariaDB on a Python project. The connector has bugs very hard to debug. I tried to download the python source, C++ source and failed to locate the bug. I tried to add issue but find nowhere to report. Finally I give up and use MySQL instead. It works like a charm.
Open source adds value, but IMHO being good is first priority.
SQLite did. Eats more and more of the DB world every year.
The web is public domain. Don’t need to explain that.
So is tcp/ip.
the great ones are public domain. GPL et al are a clever hack to weaponize copyright laws against themselves, but at the end of the day the solution we need is an amendment repealing Article I, Section 8 clause 8.