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Re:Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org by kerblang on Thursday April 06, 2023 @01:13PM (#35471391)
Well, I was wondering: Can one guy really IPO the same product twice? It was quite a clever stunt quitting Oracle, snagging IP on the way out, and just rinse/repeat to another $billion+ but it seemed to good to be true. I guess it was.

(I am a MariaDB user, btw, so... hoping that it doesn't go completely in the toilet.)

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Re:Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org by ergonaught on Thursday April 06, 2023 @05:17PM (#35474602)
We didn't IPO MySQL, we were acquired by Sun. We were on track for IPO, yes, but there were too many acquisition offers to bother.

Monty didn't "snag IP" or perform a "clever stunt". He forked a GPL codebase the same as anyone else can do. His goal was not to do another IPO.

I get that talking about things you don't actually understand is perfectly human, but Monty's about 99% great guy pretty much all the time. If you want to snipe, take aim at the one thing he actually did wrong, instead of the things other people did wrong with his babies.

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Re:Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org by alienzx on Friday April 07, 2023 @12:33PM (#35483578)
one thing he did wrong like losing his company multiple times? sounds like hes bad at business
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Re:Mariadb.com is dead, long live MariaDB.org by taskforcegemini on Friday April 07, 2023 @01:45PM (#35484537)
losing? afaik he sold it, getting millions out of it
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