Monty tries to prevent MySQL going to Oracle

One of the founders of MySQL, Monty Widenius, has launched a campaign to try and prevent the EU from agreeing to the acquisition of Sun Microsystems by Oracle Corporation.
 

Stallman, others object to Oracle's MySQL ownership

Two organisations, along with Free Software Foundation head Richard M. Stallman, have written to the European Commission, asking that Oracle not be allowed to acquire MySQL as part of its larger acquisition of Sun Microsystems.
 

Our open source heroes are humans too

A great deal is being made of the fact that Linux creator Linus Torvalds has switched from using the KDE desktop to using GNOME, something he did many months ago, and something he mentioned in passing during an interview last month.