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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by LeFantome on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:13AM (#34076928)
MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.
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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by user_named on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @12:23AM (#34076995)
It's not pronounced Me, it's not English. But let's excuse your americanism.
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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by unethical_ban on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @01:35AM (#34077402)
No one I know had ever pronounced it Me. How did you come to the conclusion this non existent thing was an Americanism?
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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by gboone on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:19AM (#34080339)
I think the reference is to the daughter's name, not the product. Previous discussion regarding name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203571

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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by unethical_ban on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @02:04PM (#34084891)
Ah. I thought the OP was saying "Americans pronounce it 'me' and that is wrong".

They were saying "Americans pronounce it 'my' and that is wrong".

Got it.

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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by user_named on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:14AM (#34104549)
It's neither. I'm saying you're too dumb to understand that your language doesn't cover every other language.
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Re:MariaDB plunges nearly 40% in NYSE debut after SPAC merger by deafpolygon on Thursday December 22, 2022 @07:12AM (#34092563)
Wait what? The same guy who made MySQL sold it to Oracle, then forked THAT code, started a new company on the same codebase then now is going public?
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