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evaneliastoday at 1:36 AM0 repliesview on HN

It's a large ecosystem with multiple server vendors (Oracle MySQL, MariaDB, Percona, VillageSQL) that are relatively easy to migrate between, compared to moving to a completely different DBMS ecosystem.

Sometimes there are valid technical motivations to move away completely, but a nonsensical fear of a massively-used GPL database somehow becoming closed-source (with no surviving forks or continuity) is not one of them in my book!