If you care about supporting open source software, and still use MySQL in 2026, you should switch to MariaDB like so many others have already done.The number of git commits on github.com/mysql/mysql-server has been significantly declining in 2025. The screenshot below shows the state of git commits as of writing this in January 2026, and the picture should be alarming to anyone who cares about software being open source.This is not surprising – Oracle should not be trusted as the steward for ope...