good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE - eviltoast

I will say I’m not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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    I never understand how articles are always excited to announce stuff like this. Yes, ok the C suite is going to get a fat check, but being acquired by a company that exclusively focus on making money isn’t really a good thing. Selling database support to enterprises don’t have the exponential growth that those investors are usually craving. Are those investors OK with a slow but steady income flow?

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      it’s PR Newswire - the entire content of this will be a press release sent out by the companies themselves, having been written by the pr/marketing departments of the entities involved l

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          Every TC article I’ve seen recently is furious jerking about how totally legal AI is and how it will finally defeat the copyright Great Satan.

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          As I’m sure you’ll be informed by David, a lot of “tech” press pieces are thinly rewritten PR puff pieces.