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Basically MariaDB. He (original creator of MySQL) sold MySQL for a Billion dollars (iirc) forked it, created MariaDB and kept at it. It's been what 15 years now?

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Wrong person. You're thinking of Michael “Monty” Widenius, not Mitchell Hashimoto

I think op is telling a similar story, not necessarily the same person.

You are correct. I tried to rewrite my statement after I was being downvoted. English is not my first language to the surprise of most.

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