Wowwwww. Um, The Horse IS Dead, gimme the stick.
We forked it and MariaDB is Insanely better than MySQL. And PostgreSQL is about to eat everyone's lunch, so ... who gives a shit what oracle does with MySQL.
Tell me Oracle opening governance for Java (LOLOL, I crack me up) and you have my undivided attention.
Oracle promises to open up MySQL governance, but the community wants guarantees
@elfin Oracle Announces Phase Two of MySQL
https://theonion.com/starbucks-to-begin-sinister-phase-two-of-operation-1819565956/
@mdhughes "...map of North America showing the location of every existing Starbucks. Lines drawn between the various stores form geometric patterns across the U.S., including five-pointed stars, Masonic symbols, and, in the Seattle area, the image of a gigantic Oroborous serpent wrapped around an inverted ziggurat."
I've begged The Onion to introduce me to their dealer. I just get quaint grins.
@elfin I haven't encountered anyone using MySQL for several years - from my seat MariaDb has utterly replaced MySQL.
I trust Oracle about as far as I can throw its buildings in Redwood Shores.
@karlauerbach @elfin with enough TNT we can move it a few feet.
For science.
@petrillic @elfin How much do you think one would need? Those buildings are heavy, but they are also built on bay mud subject to liquefaction.
(I know this because I used to live in Redwood Shores before the Oracle stuff replaced Africa USA/Marine World - our condo was designed to "float" on the liquefied mud that that area would turn into after a big earthquake.)
@karlauerbach @petrillic 11Kg of plutonium. It's a logistics thing.
@elfin @petrillic For Oracle my mental image is of a large demonic form arising from the bay muck, encased in sulfurous flames and smoke; reaching a flaming tentacle into the executive offices to grab everyone it finds there and carry them into the daemon's bottomless mouth. And then each of the buildings, and everything within, would slightly shudder and begin a slow descent into the muck. And across the world every Oracle database would stop and display this message: 'Gone, Gone Forever"
More Biblical, less fissionable.
@karlauerbach @elfin perhaps both. Just to be safe.
@petrillic @karlauerbach I find this fair and reasonable.
@petrillic @karlauerbach I used to be able to see them from the bedroom balcony of my house on the other side of El Camino ...
"Enough TNT" == Kilotons ... in which case, why use TNT? For just 11Kg we could permanently remodel that side of town.