[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

Ken godee ken at perfect-image.com
Fri Jul 20 17:55:18 UTC 2012


> Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:16 PM, John Hinton <webmaster at 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...

Why don't they just continue to do something more useful
like continue the support for "OpenSolaris"!






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