The user community for these products is WAY bigger than code4lib, 
naturally.  If Oracle manages to mess them up, then the user community 
will fork, or migrate to different products, and we will follow.  
Fortunately we are not alone here, there are giant communities formed 
around these open source products, which will keep using open source 
products to fill those functions one way or another, and we'll go with 
them.

Not to imply that a custodial company who wanted to couldn't make things 
very inconvenient in the short to medium term, sure. But it's just 
speculation at this point, I don't see any reason to get alarmed.  And 
one way or another, it'll work out in the end.

Jonathan

Barnett, Jeffrey wrote:
> I know the answer is yes, but does anyone care to speculate on the impact of Oracle's takeover of Sun, which controls in addition to open source workhorse JAVA, MySQL, OpenOffice, and Netbeans (all of which complete with proprietary products from Oracle).  I haven't heard anything quotable recently from Larry Ellison, but he has in the pass been an ardent opponent of OSS and I find it hard to imagine him not taking advantage of this opportunity to place roadblocks and/or booby traps in the way of the OSS community.
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