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beaumartinez on Jan 17, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Node.js and the Road Ahead

Not really, MariaDB has nowhere near the adoption levels MySQL has.

Even so, MySQL was one of the biggest gratis databases, and it happened to be bought by a company that specialized in selling established enterprise database software. There was concern RE the support a gratis database would have under such a company.

The situation that created MariaDB is very specific, and very different to the one Node.js is in.

mattmanser on Jan 17, 2014 [–]

LibreOffice then?

alecthomas on Jan 17, 2014 | [–]

I think the XOrg fork from XFree86 is the best example I can think of.

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