Linus Torvalds speaks out against EU patent law
News In a statement published on an anti-patent Web site, Linus Torvalds, MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius and PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf, said that software patents must not be legalised. Linus Torvalds, Michael Widenius and Rasmus Lerdorf were not...
[November 23, 2004, 11:35]
IBM accused of hypocrisy over patent collaboration
News This is a concern of many prominent open source developers, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Knoppix founder Klaus Knopper and MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius. Michael Tortolano, a senior software manager at technology company Home Media...
[January 11, 2005, 16:05]
The real way to pronounce MySQL (it's not what you think)
Blog MySQL is named after the daughter of the other co-founder Michael Widenius, as Wikipedia already knows. How you do pronounce MySQL? I've spent a good few years correcting those who say it 'mysequel', firm in the knowledge that My.S.Q.L.was correct...
[April 25, 2008, 12:42]
Anti-patent campaigner hangs up his gloves
News He was responsible for a high-profile campaign in which Linux founder Linus Torvalds, MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius and PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke out against the European directive. One of the leading anti-patent campaigners in Europe...
[March 30, 2005, 14:30]
Software patents campaigners honoured
News Mueller was responsible for a high-profile campaign in which Linux founder Linus Torvalds, MySQL co-founder Michael Widenius and PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf spoke out against the European directive. Two of the main movers behind the campaign to...
[September 28, 2005, 13:05]
Group aims to keep MySQL healthy
News One of the original authors of MySQL, Michael 'Monty' Widenius, has founded the Open Database Alliance, a consortium that aims to become the industry hub for the open source database. The two founding parties of the vendor-neutral consortium are...
[May 15, 2009, 12:09]
Sun warns of bugs as it releases MySQL 5.1
News Michael 'Monty' Widenius, the founder of MySQL, stated in a blog post on Saturday that most of the issues identified were serious or crashing bugs. Widenius highlighted that the feature was inefficient, particularly if there were many partitions in...
[December 1, 2008, 8:07]
Drizzle project to trim down MySQL
News In addition Drizzle will include the latest InnoDB code; you don't have to wait for MySQL 6.0 or go to the trouble of annually downloading and installing the InnoDB plugin from Oracle just to get access to the latest and fastest InnoDB version...
[July 24, 2008, 11:01]
