What? My decision is based on years of observation. I applauded MariaDB at first, but they almost went bankrupt, merged with another company, changed he business model (release new code parts in a different license). And on the other side I still remember Cyanogen + CyanogenMOD that got so much worse and died because of a certain "sponsor". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyanogenMod nowadays forked as LineageOS, but many things got lost incl older devices. So a small number of companies with deep pockets are like cancer to open source projects, the good thing is they can be forked. But see MaxDB for an open source database that never got forked, and there is no open source project anymore, it got closed source, and nowadays powers parts of expensive SAP HANA data store. It is better to install Percona MySQL fork, or MySQL community edition.
