On 1/22/21 9:15 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
Le 21/01/2021 à 23:30, Scott Robbins a écrit :
People pull up all sorts of technical reasons to justify what is, in the end, an emotional decision.
There is, of course, the possibility to go beyond that. For example, I am not exactly fond of Oracle as a company, for reasons you probably know as good as me. They did some horrible things to Solaris, MySQL and Java, their CEO
IMHO they didn't do anything horrible to us. They just wasted a lot of money buying companies and then didn't continue the open source developments in a way which worked for the community. However the project are not dead by now, they just run under a different name these days.
supported Trump, etc. But it also happens that they do have one of the
IMHO it's a feature of something called democracy that even CEOs are free to support whoever they want - without asking anyone and like everybody else.
Agreeing about freedom of opinion, but can not help to mention: freedom of speech belongs more to liberty, not democracy. Democracy (decision of majority...) is in its essense a tyranny of majority over minority.
My apologies for adding to political discussion on technical list, which better be avoided, so not continuing it and inviting others spare the list of politics, religion, and other non-technical issues.
Valeri
better maintained RHEL clones out there, with fast updates and an excellent documentation.
For me OL works very well. I've just modified the migration/installation so that it removes all OL specific stuff like UEK and changes things back to upstream EL versions. If I ever regret the move to OL I know know quite well how to migrate to another clone. And I mean a full migration which changes every bit.
Simon
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