[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

Fri Jul 20 20:37:34 UTC 2012
Craig White <craig.white at ttiltd.com>

On Jul 20, 2012, at 12:33 PM, John R. Dennison wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 02:30:49PM -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> You misspelled, once again, "leech".  It's a simple word, you should
> really use it more often considering how applicable it is in this
> thread.
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nit picking someone whose first language isn't English? Better to build a barrier to communication than to actual discuss the actual issues I guess. 
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> 
>> Plus, I wouldn´t pay for Oracle DB, with all the free options
>> (including MySQL community edition) available on repos...
> 
> So for all your ramblings of commercialism these past few posts you
> would rather use something free instead of paying?  Really?
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From my experience with Fernando on Fedora-List... I am quite sure that he prefers to use free software and while I don't share any enthusiasm for Oracle, everyone is free to choose what they install on their boxes and I sense that what you really want to do here is ridicule.

Craig