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good news everyone, mariadb strain is now owned by PE (www.prnewswire.com)

submitted 2 months ago by froztbyte@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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I will say I'm not much of a fan of mysqls but uhhhhh this seems bad

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[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

it’s PR Newswire - the entire content of this will be a press release sent out by the companies themselves, having been written by the pr/marketing departments of the entities involved l

[–] Moonrise2473@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yes but i saw a similar enthusiastic post on TechCrunch

[–] Evinceo@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

Every TC article I've seen recently is furious jerking about how totally legal AI is and how it will finally defeat the copyright Great Satan.

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

As I'm sure you'll be informed by David, a lot of "tech" press pieces are thinly rewritten PR puff pieces.