On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:16 AM, Calum Benson <[email protected]>wrote:
> > On 30 Apr 2010, at 04:35, Dave Johnson wrote: > > > > 502018 Euro for WHAT? How crazy is Oracle? They provided one of the > > best browsers on the planet for Solaris and Oracle did what? Ask for > > money? IMO the manager responsible at Oracle should be fired. > > > > The Opera legal folks is looking into whether Oracle's emails can be > > published or not. > > If this is true, and I have no idea whether it is or not, seems odd that > their blog entry wouldn't just have said "We're dropping support for Solaris > because we can't afford the licence fee", or, "We're dropping support for > Solaris because Oracle are teh suck!", rather than mumbling some woolly > excuse about it not being one of their preferred Unix-like platforms. Would > probably have attracted a lot more sympathy, and possibly even an investor > who wanted to pay for ongoing Solaris support. > Nothing odd about that at all, unless you like all the Apple vs. Adobe public fights. If Solaris was not their preferred platform plus they had all these obstacles getting help from Oracle, the easy way out is to drop it and focus on other areas that will have greater impact. Or do you think everybody that disagrees with how Oracle is running OpenSolaris are really going to step up and complain ? A lot of users will just go somewhere else. -- Giovanni
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