On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote: > >> On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote: >>> Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL >>> fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office >>> and Visual Box. The long term future for these is uncertain. >> >> Whaaa...? Facts would seem otherwise.... Here's an article from just a few >> months ago! >> >> http://www.glgroup.com/News/Oracle-to-Red-Hat--Its-Not-Your-Fathers-Linux- >> Market-Anymore-51058.html > > Thank you. Happily I got the 'swallowed Red Hat' wrong. Sadly the long > term future for Red Hat, MySQL, Open Office and Visual Box is certainly > uncertain. > Ah, I get your drift! Illumos and OpenIndiana is the way to go! > > Will we one day be dependent on open source Chinese Linux if Western > open source Linux dries-up ? > ??? Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana!