Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- Subject: Re: People who develop with MySQL and/or other GPL based code
- From: Nathaniel Talbott <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2003 23:35:36 -0500
On Dec 31, 2003, at 18:37, mmalcolm crawford wrote:
I have yet to see a convincing case for the desirability of source
code for the average developer-user of a database. If you notice
buggy behaviour in the core MySQL server, are *you* really going to
fix it?
Yes, or at least dig down to the point where I can point at a specific
piece of code and say, "My problem is in there." I've submitted patches
to several open source projects (one of them being FreeTDS, a db
client), and I've also used source to narrow down a problem to a point
where it's much easier for the main developers to help me out. Perhaps
I'm not average, but power-users are people too! ;-)
The availability of source (regardless of whether the library costs
money or not) always weighs heavily in my decisions to use or not to
use.
Nathaniel
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