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Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases by abhinav22 on Thursday June 03, 2021 @07:30PM (#27388754)
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.

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Re:Patents in Open Source: the important parts of real cases by zhouyisu on Friday June 04, 2021 @04:35AM (#27391765)
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.
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