On 10/28/2010 11:14 PM, Ramon Sole wrote: > Guys, once more, just look at the numbers. Anyone who could make a strategic > analysis can see OOo is a good business to Oracle.
As far as the phrase "is good business" goes, for oracle that means "generates cash --- lots of it." > OOo is the best competitor to MS, it's like a torpedo to the float line of > MS. Oracle has demonstrated that they want to surpass SCO in corporate stupidity, and deliberate and wilful self-destruction. > Why the hell is Oracle going to deactivate a torpedo is already running a top > speed against its main competitor and needs just some cents (in Oracle scale) > to go ahead? Because Oracle's inability to grok FLOSS is such, that it will commit corporate suicide in the name of deliberate and wilful corporate ignorance. > Is Oracle going to stop the spread of OOo shutting off the Community? Based on Oracle's public statements, and their commitment to their FLOSS strategy that they have spectacularly demonstrated in the past nine months, Oracle really thinks that it can own FLOSS, and that it can stop FLOSS by shutting off community support. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address. It all gets forwarded to /dev/null
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