Oracle seems to have divided the open source ranks over the MySQL delay it’s having closing its acquisition of Sun. Eben Moglin, the GPL’s most ardent defender and delineator, the lawyer who has worked hand in glove for years with the Free Software Foundation’s founder Richard Stallman and who largely wrote the GPL, has reportedly told the EC its analysis of the MySQL market is flawed, a position that is contrary to what Stallman has told the EC.

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