Monty at it again...
Apparently Michael Widenius isn't quite about to give up on his quest against Oracle.
The latest news is that he's appealing the EC decision. Wonder what the use of that is, since the merger seems pretty final already. I also don't think it's a very good cause, at any rate. After all, the worst that can happen is that MySQL will fork. Or that Oracle will pour some resources in it, and actually make it a database, rather than the POS toy it currently is. Or that it dies out, and that the world switches over to PostgreSQL or Firebird for Free Software database requirements. Wouldn't be a big loss, would it?
Give up already, Monty!
I don't know, but I've got a theory why MySQL became popular in the first place over Postgres (and perhaps others). MySQL was available to cheap web hosting companies who could charge per database. Postgres could not be farmed out as simply at that time. I believe there have been some changes since then that makes this simpler.
But who cares now? It's simple and cheap to get a good VPS and run your own server. Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing MySQL go just so more attention can be paid towards Postgres and SqLite.