It's GNU/Linux, Oracle. You can't even get _that_ right. ;-)
Even red hat doesn't call it Gnu/Linux.
Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
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#22Yeah 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…
Oracle does care about open source, to the extent that they have been the top Linux kernel contributor several times.
https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-is-the-1-contribu...
Oracle actually does not undercut the least expensive Red Hat support offerings. Oracle Linux support is $499/year for basic, and $1,399/year for premier. Both tiers allow 24x7 access to file service requests (SRs).
https://www.oracle.com/linux/support/
Red Hat has a more complicated support structure, starting with workstation-self support: $179, workstation-8x5 support: $299, server-self support: $349, server-8x5 support: $799, server-24x7 support: $1,299.
https://www.redhat.com/en/store/linux-platforms
It would be interesting if IBM did exactly what this Oracle blog suggests:
"Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden."
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#23> Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
It's nice to see big companies trolling each other.
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#24Red 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.
Sun was FAR better than Oracle
Re: Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
#25It's GNU/Linux, Oracle. You can't even get _that_ right. ;-)
It's not the GNU part that's the issue here.
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#27Oracle: Keep Linux open and free; we couldn't figure out any way not to...
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#28This does not read like a corporate blog lol. It’s so passive aggressive and has minor insults all over the place.
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#29I know these are not the same situation, but this sounds like a different Oracle than the one that owns and manages Java.
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#30> we certify Oracle software products on RHEL even though they are built and tested on Oracle Linux only, never on RHEL
Okay, that's honestly really interesting, and that is quite a statement on their compatibility. I guess it saves them money on licensing and also sends a message.