They bought it out yes, but the guy forked it and now develops MariaDB, which a few OS' have switched to after the Oracle take over. I'm sure he's enjoying still working on his project.

A valuable lesson to those buying OSS companies with the intention of destroying the competition to their core product.

There's another side: IF the company does a great job, the OSS project becomes much more fruitful, however, if it doesn't do much of a great job, well you end up with MariaDB vs. MySQL and LibreOffice vs. OpenOffice (not sure they haven't bothered to merge).

At least the GNU does what it was intended to do, stop companies from hijacking / buying out a software product and getting rid of it entirely.

I hope they never learn that lesson.

Phineas Barnum was right and we can use the money better than Larry Ellison.

At least, we can use it to build nice things for everyone to enjoy.

A valuable lesson to those buying OSS companies.

It's a lesson for those who want OSS companies for the wrong reasons.

I am quite sure had Oracle agreed to fund the development of MySQL into the Oracle RDMS killer it may eventually become, the fork would not happen.

If I were Monty, I'd try to sell MariaDB to Larry Ellison for a billion dollars.