Well, I was wondering: Can one guy really IPO the same product twice? It was quite a clever stunt quitting Oracle, snagging IP on the way out, and just rinse/repeat to another $billion+ but it seemed to good to be true. I guess it was.
(I am a MariaDB user, btw, so... hoping that it doesn't go completely in the toilet.)
We didn't IPO MySQL, we were acquired by Sun. We were on track for IPO, yes, but there were too many acquisition offers to bother.
Monty didn't "snag IP" or perform a "clever stunt". He forked a GPL codebase the same as anyone else can do. His goal was not to do another IPO.
I get that talking about things you don't actually understand is perfectly human, but Monty's about 99% great guy pretty much all the time. If you want to snipe, take aim at the one thing he actually did wrong, instead of the things other people did wrong with his babies.
(I am a MariaDB user, btw, so... hoping that it doesn't go completely in the toilet.)