Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To

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Cheering for Oracle is certainly an unexpected turn of events, but here we are. They are absolutely right that RedHatIBM’s motivations are simply to kill competition and obtain vendor lock-in by ending RHEL compatibility. RedHat is truly dead.

Cheering for Oracle is certainly an unexpected turn of events, but here we are.

Oracle is literally freeloading RHEL without giving anything back. If they were an active Fedora and CentOS contributor, I would have sympathy but they are not.

RedHat is truly dead.

Red Hat is (at the moment at least) still the biggest FOSS supporter around. Oracle's behavior makes clear that they have absolutely no interest in picking up contributions in upstream FOSS community projects.

lol "competition". Oracle doesn't contribute 1/10th that Red Hat does to open source. This whole controversy is BECAUSE of Oracle copying Red Hat's homework with OEL. Now they are pissed because they can't have a free lunch anymore at Red Hat's expense.