Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
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#2This is one of those uncomfortable situations where you find yourself on the same side as the devil.
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#3Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) was my first-ever open source operating system. If you'd told me, 25 years ago, that one day Red Hat would withhold source from the Linux community, and that Oracle would be the champion of contributing back, I never would have believed you.
This feels a little bit like when Ahmadinejad called out Putin for being a tyrannical narcissist.
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#4This is one of those uncomfortable situations where you find yourself on the same side as the devil.
I was about to say. Never before have I agreeed with Oracle.
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#5Yeah, right, I agree with ... err... Oracle. No, wait, something's wrong...
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#6Commoditize your... what was it? https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#7Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) was my first-ever open source operating system. If you'd told me, 25 years ago, that one day Red Hat would withhold source from the Linux community, and that Oracle would be the champion of contributing back, I never would have believed you. This feels a little bit like when Ahmadinejad called out Putin for being a tyrannical narcissist.
I would have believed it. Red Hat always felt like a faceless corporation. And Oracle is just the successor to Sun Microsystems.
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#8Yeah this is just opportunistic PR. Oracle cares less about Open Source than even the most brain dead Red Hatter. As with all things Oracle, they are taking the angle that potentially creates a revenue opportunity for themselves. This is fine. I get it but doing it under the guise of higher open source ideals is comically transparent. Their OEL market share mostly consists of them targeting specific Red Hat accounts and severely undercutting RHEL costs (since Red Hat incurs significantly more development burden and costs) and using it as a launch pad to embed myriad other Oracle products within the customer ecosystem. Other products that conveniently aren’t grounded in their supposed open source ideals.
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#9This is one of those uncomfortable situations where you find yourself on the same side as the devil.
I was about to say. Never before have I agreeed with Oracle.
Big tech companies have a history of supporting the community where doing so attacks their competitors’ cash cows.
There’s also that Oracle linux was formed from RHEL.
Maybe let’s not confuse Oracle undermining their competitor’s moat with their genuinely being on the side of the community.
It’s been a while, but the necessity of MariaDB and Percona also seem to show that Oracle’s been very much on the other side of this kind of move in the past.
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#10This is one of those uncomfortable situations where you find yourself on the same side as the devil.
Exactly, lol.