Open Source Backers Urge EU To Block Oracle-Sun Deal

By Evan Weinberger (October 20, 2009, 4:21 PM EDT) -- A group of freeware technology activists has asked European Union competition regulators to block Oracle Corp.'s $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc., citing fears that Oracle will block the development of open source database software MySQL, which is owned by Sun....

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