I am sure you are aware that you can contribute without owning the product, much like how Novell contributed to OO.o, GNOME, KDE, Kernel etc etc without owning/leading any one of the projects right?
So while Oracle is mostly known to be a proprietary company, they do have a dedicated FOSS/Linux team and have contributed codes to many projects. Yes, Unbreakable Linux is just CentOS with Yast but then that is the freedom granted by FOSS. So as long they put a feasible business model and wrap SLA around it, they we can even repackage Debian and call it what ever they want. Ubuntu did the same! And nobody seems to be screaming bloody revenge.... I am no Oracle fanboy and much less of Larry Ellison but due credit must be given, regardless of the company's reputation. I am not too worried about what will happen to MySQL, OO.o or Java. MySQL's codes are in the Net (and now there is MariaDB); if you use any of the paid-for Enterprise distros, it will be supported for 5-7 years; OO.o you can go LibreOffice, StarOffice or Symphony. Java? Well there is OpenJDK. Eric On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:45 PM, Ghodmode <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 -- 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
