20 Jul
2012
20 Jul
'12
5:30 p.m.
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Hinton webmaster@ew3d.com wrote:
Meanwhile, if this is linux.oracle.com, shouldn't Oracle database be included in the 'free version'?
No, as IBM doesn´t make DB2 GPL either. It´s the big bucks from the fortune 500 proprietary products which pays -in part- for all the FOSS goodness like OpenJDK, Netbeans, Virtualbox, Glassfish, MySQL, Btrfs, InnoDB, BerkeleyDB...
If you mean, ´free as in free beer" ... I guess it´s a matter of keeping things simple... as they try to mirror the RHEL package set...
Plus, I wouldn´t pay for Oracle DB, with all the free options (including MySQL community edition) available on repos...
Just my $0.02... FC
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