On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Slaya Chronicles - Geeko Acolyte < [email protected]> wrote:
> Oracle has contributed a lot to FOSS especially to the Linux kernel. > Also comes to mind VirtualBox, NetBeans. > I didn't realize that Oracle had made contributions to the Linux kernel until you mentioned it. That's good, but my search results revealed some doubt about their motives even in their contributions to FLOSS. See http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/oracles-new-kernel-rhel-clone-real-truth VirtualBox and NetBeans were actually Sun Microsystems' products that they acquired through their own business acquisitions. Oracle might (I hope) do wonderful things with them, but I think it's still too soon to give Oracle any credit. I am familiar with Oracle's "Unbreakable Linux" product and I always thought of that as a positive thing, but there has been a some criticism of Oracle there too. See http://practical-tech.com/operating-system/the-real-point-of-unbreakable-linux-breaking-red-hat/... It's an old article which precedes Oracle's purchase of Sun. The re-branding, I can live with it, after all they did buy SUN; but I > guess the most unsavoury part of it is how they treated OpenSolaris > and MySQL. The law suits wont do them any good either. Also Ellson's > reputation is enough to make something nice and pure into something > seedy and unsavoury. > > Eric > -- Join Open Source Developers Club Malaysia http://www.osdc.my/ Facebook Fan page http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=98685301577 http://www.facebook.com/OSDC.my You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OSDC.my Mailing List" 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/osdcmy-list?hl=en
