MySQL is named after the founder’s daughter—My ( pronounced me by the way ). He sold it to Oracle and then, because it was Open Source, he forked it to create MariaDB. The name of his other daughter is Maria.

Wait what? The same guy who made MySQL sold it to Oracle, then forked THAT code, started a new company on the same codebase then now is going public?

No one I know had ever pronounced it Me. How did you come to the conclusion this non existent thing was an Americanism?

I think the reference is to the daughter's name, not the product. Previous discussion regarding name:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12203571

Ah. I thought the OP was saying "Americans pronounce it 'me' and that is wrong".

They were saying "Americans pronounce it 'my' and that is wrong".

Got it.

It's neither. I'm saying you're too dumb to understand that your language doesn't cover every other language.

Many open source projects have startups behind them putting in all the work, usually with the hope of monetizing it. Which is a really hard problem - the choices are support and services (the software is FOSS but you sell support and implementation/review services to enterprises - what Red Hat used to do), or open core (only the core software is FOSS, and there are proprietary Enterprise versions with more Enterprise features). Neither are obvious and many open source startups fail.