That sounds a lot like the pot calling the kettle black. Oracle is nothing but a bunch of stark hypocrites. They have absolutely nothing to say on the subject matter of FOSS and open and fair competition. This is just peak corporatism. Oracle is the king of proprietary. They've done NOTHING to contribute to open source. They take, take, take!
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Not only do they do nothing for open source, they actively kill open source projects after aquiring them.
Anyone with any experience with Oracle hates Oracle.
Fuck them and the horse they rode in on.
Oracle saying to keep Linux free is like an arsonist talking about fire safety (after they burned your house down). The fact that they can say that shit with a straight face is shameful. What a fucking world we've found ourselves in.
"The hen house simply must be left open," says local fox, after rival fox got hired to guard hen house
Nice try Oracle, it's not like we forgot all the shit you've pulled though.
If the link is 404, it should be: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
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lmao, OK Oracle...
Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
Oh shit, Oracle and IBM are going to duke it out. Where is my popcorn?
IBM just doesn’t care, corpos are still going to use RHEL just the same tomorrow as they did yesterday. Oracle is in the position to throw shade simply because they don’t have market share with Oracle Linux to toe-to-toe with RHEL. If they did, they wouldn’t be giving away a free lunch.
So much talk, nothing to back it up. Blatant PR move.
For Oracle, the position makes sense. They want to commoditize around their own stack / products, which is enterprise software. They profit from a free operating system below that. So while I'd say this statement is more than just PR, it can be dismissed as it isn't honest. I'll believe it when they open source their core products (like Oracle DB) and allow rebuilds. Until then, they can go fuck themselves
The trend of one shitty corporation attempting some PR bullshit and market-taking after the previous shitty corporation makes a really idiotic move doesn't stop with Meta going for Twitter's throat, doesn't it?
Oracle trying to spin up some moral high ground over RedHat is hysterically bad. They'd do better staying quiet.
Very persuading coming from a company where half its employees are lawyers.
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