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		bicknergseng on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Open Sources C# Compiler Important. Also, Oracle has bought/absorbed free software and slowly suffocated it (lookin at you, MySQL).

rimantas on April 4, 2014 | [–]

InnoDB was Oracles long before Oracle bought Sun (and MySQL with it). If they wanted to hurt MySQL they had that opportunity before acquisition.

MertsA on April 4, 2014 | | [–]

Don't forget OpenOffice.

TheRealDunkirk on April 4, 2014 | [–]

And Ksplice.

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