MySQL AB was a venture backed startup that raised $40m in funding, not some random open source hippies that got tricked into giving away the crown jewels.  The company was built to sell or IPO.<p>And see, I don't expect Montey to <i>like</i> this, but I do wish he'd shut up about it.  He's not the right person to be leading this call.  My take on this doesn't have anything to do with it being OSS or not; it'd seem like sour grapes if any founder who sold his company and left was trying to incite governments towards legal action against his acquiring company at a time when they're otherwise pretty much hosed.