[CentOS] Oracle UEK kernel on CentOS
Patrick Lists
centos-list at puzzled.xs4all.nl
Thu Jul 19 01:39:49 UTC 2012
On 19-07-12 00:34, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps if they were actually putting out their _own_ distribution
>> instead of leeching off Redhat's work and then _making money off of it_
>> it perchance might be a different story.
>
> It's called "free market competition".
No it's not. It's called leeching.
> It brings down costs for the consumer.
Thanks for a good laugh. The only thing that will happen when companies
switch from RHEL to Oracle's EOL is that they will get up-sold like
there's no tomorrow and Larry & minions will take them for every penny &
first born they got.
> Sun took Novell's SuSE Enterprise Desktop for its short-lived Java
> Desktop System (JDS) Linux.
Iirc there was a commercial arrangement. You know the free market kind
where money is paid for goods and services as in the opposite from leeching.
> As long as they comply with the GPL rules, it's all fair game.
Larry is that you?
Regards,
Patrick
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