Last year Sun bought MySQL. Now, Oracle is trying to buy Sun. If that happens Oracle will own MySQL. This is not a big problem in my mind, the problem lies in what Oracle will do with MySQL, if the purchase is approved by the EC.

With that Michael “Monty” Widenius, the creator of MySQL, is asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle’s clutches. He is asking us to write the EC, and demand Oracle to change the terms for MySQL or give other guarantees to the users.

He has compiled a list of steps that one can take in order to help with this cause.

What I want to ask you to do (until 2009-12-19):

- Forward this email to everyone that you know is using MySQL or Open Source/free software and to all email list where you know there are people present that use or care about MySQL and open source (please check first that this email hasn’t been sent there before)
- Alternatively send emails with information about this and tell them to read http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html
- Add links on your web site to http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2009/12/help-saving-mysql.html with the text “We are using MySQL, help save it”, for the duration of the next two week.
- Blog about this (feel free to include this text or just link to my blog)
- Call by phone (don’t contact by email, this is urgent) your boss or VP and ask him to read this email and send a letter to the EC commission ASAP!
- If you don’t have anyone to contact above, send an email to the EC!

You can find the body of the email by visiting his blog post “Help saving MySQL”

Contact the European Commission and help save MySQL.

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