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		giancarlostoro 79 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Libghostty is coming Basically MariaDB. He (original creator of MySQL) sold MySQL for a Billion dollars (iirc) forked it, created MariaDB and kept at it. It's been what 15 years now?

internetter 78 days ago [–]

Wrong person. You're thinking of Michael “Monty” Widenius, not Mitchell Hashimoto

karimf 78 days ago | [–]

I think op is telling a similar story, not necessarily the same person.

giancarlostoro 78 days ago | | [–]

You are correct. I tried to rewrite my statement after I was being downvoted. English is not my first language to the surprise of most.

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