Quickpoll Results

What do you think MySQL could do to better support the open source community?

Better documentation	632 (32.1%)
More how-to technical articles	796 (40.4%)
MySQL knowledge base	648 (32.9%)
More participation in forums, newsgroups	204 (10.4%)
Participate in more open source conferences	143 (7.3%)
Sponsor open source foundations	204 (10.4%)
Publish open source benchmarks	283 (14.4%)
Stand up against software patents	594 (30.2%)
Clearer licensing policies	344 (17.5%)
More frequent updates and bug fixes	322 (16.4%)
Ship MySQL 5.0 sooner!	973 (49.4%)

A total of 1968 votes have been cast in this poll.

Note: Because this poll allows multiple answers, the percentages above will not add up to 100%.

This poll is closed to additional voting.

Poll opened September 1, 2004.

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