It will be interesting to see when Sun's goodwill, runs out for Oracle. Apart from the mysterious IBM alliance, it doesn't look like Oracle is particular keen on building relationships of any kind unless there's $ involved. With that in mind, you wonder whether Oracle didn't make a strategic mistake to ignore the community in such massive ways. Engineers and PM's familiar with open source and mutual collaboration are bound to want to look elsewhere and that can not be a good long-term strategy.
On Nov 30, 11:59 pm, Michael Neale <[email protected]> wrote: > I liked this comment: > > http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954958 > > quote: > > "From my POV, it looks like Oracle has two heads: there's the nasty, > legal head that is happy to sue everyone with Sun's patent arsenal, > and there's the plain incompetent head that doesn't have a clue how to > interact with open-source development. We're seeing the latter here, > and I guess the community is just fortunate that Hudson isn't patent- > encumbered (as far as I know). I don't think there's any particular > malice here, just a general level of incompetence and hubris." > > a bit harsh to say "incompetent" but it is probably fair in saying > that word applies to how large chunks of oracle deal with the > community outside of oracle. > > On Dec 1, 7:46 am, Casper Bang <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > What a bad movie this is turning out to be. > > > On Nov 30, 9:22 pm, Andreas Petersson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > this time: Hudson - Continuous Integration > > > Systemhttp://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing > > > > i have not fully gathered all the facts on this, since i do not use > > > hudson, but for me, it looks like this thing is currently going out of > > > control for oracle. > > > > in one email an oracle rep even hands out tips how to properly fork this > > > project: "Because it is open source, we can't stop anybody from forking > > > it. We do however own the trademark to the name so you cannot use the > > > name outside of the core community. We acquired that as part of Sun." > > > > technical reasons for being hosted one one or another platform aside, i > > > think oracle needs some private lessons on how (not) to treat the oss > > > community. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
