True Evans!<br><br>Open Source Software (OSS) has a long life and is here to stay. OSS actually scares Proprietary Software such that the latter wants to kill the former at the earliest possible opportunity. I agree that the OSS community is larger than MySQL. And infact, I predict that the biggest growth in OSS will be in developing countries, hoping that Kenya will among others, provide the next generation of leaders in the use of ICTs and the Internet.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dorcas Muthoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dmuthoni@gmail.com">dmuthoni@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Thanks Evans!<br><br>I second you<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Evans Ikua <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ikua@lpakenya.org" target="_blank">ikua@lpakenya.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Not that there would be a "Kenyan Position" but my personal opinion is that Open Source is larger than MySQL and Sun. Maybe you could have predicted the end of MySQL, which is still not probable, but not Open Source in general. Nobody can buy the worldwide open source community.<br>
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Quoting Al Kags <<a href="mailto:alkags@alkags.com" target="_blank">alkags@alkags.com</a>>:<br>
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It occurs to me (after a spell of burying my head in some sand) that Oracle<br>
has bought Sun Microsystems (who in turn had bought MySQL)It occurs to me<br>
(after a spell of burying my head in some sand) that Oracle has bought Sun<br>
Microsystems (who in turn had bought MySQL). I have several issues in my<br>
head that are struggling to find words: 1) that Jonathan Schwatz, my<br>
favorite CEO blogger, is moving on (this is just that sentimentalclinging -<br>
"don't go!") but more importantly 2) this buy-out may signify the end of<br>
Open Source as we know it.<br>
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What is Kenya's position on the matter? I imagine that this has been<br>
discussed in the technology policy circles?<br>
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