<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Opinion on Programming Brain</title><link>https://programmingbrain.com/tags/opinion/</link><description>Recent content in Opinion on Programming Brain</description><generator>Hugo -- gohugo.io</generator><language>en</language><copyright>© &lt;script&gt;document.write(new Date().getFullYear());&lt;/script&gt;&amp;nbsp;Programming Brain. All rights reserved.</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:07:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://programmingbrain.com/tags/opinion/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>MariaDB doesn't depend on MySQL</title><link>https://programmingbrain.com/2025/01/mariadb-does-not-depend-on-mysql.html</link><pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:07:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://programmingbrain.com/2025/01/mariadb-does-not-depend-on-mysql.html</guid><description>Thoughts on how MariaDB is incorrectly perceived merely as a fork of MySQL and how MariaDB is independent from MySQL yet highly compatible</description><media:content xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://programmingbrain.com/2025/01/mariadb-does-not-depend-on-mysql/featured.png"/></item></channel></rss>