Hi,
subject tells a lot about overall thing, and media is writing a lot
about the acquisition too, so no need to expand on general topics too
much.
though, of course, Wikipedia runs on MySQL, and there is some
relation to the story that way too, but this story also means I'll be
employed by Sun.
I usually kept my professional work completely separately from the
wikipedia work - that both gave me freedom, and allowed me to avoid
any conflict of interest.
Though I've seen quite a few "MySQL is Wikipedia's choice, cause they
have infiltrated the organization with engineers", it is somewhat
opposite - I went to work for MySQL AB because it could use the
skills I grew at Wikipedia in many quite interesting ways.
Sun, though, is a big company, which has hardware, operating systems,
application servers, etc in their portfolio.
Though people from tech team know that I enjoy rational technology
solutions with irrational flavor of being open-source - conflicts of
interest may seem probable in community and public opinion (as there
already were mentions about mysql).
I'll continue to avoid being proxy of corporate interests, though of
course, if there will be opportunity to progress open technologies
both at my work and at wikitech, will voice the ideas and suggest
solutions.
Oh, and that was one hell of wikivacation week :)
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Domas Mituzas --
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