[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

John R. Dennison jrd at gerdesas.com
Fri Jul 20 21:28:22 UTC 2012


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 04:45:40PM -0400, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> I think John was saying that Oracle isn't trying to "mirror" the RHEL
> package set, but "leech" off the RHEL package set.

Just to clarify so there are no mistaken impressions.

Oracle are, in the form of Larry Ellison, a bunch of leeches that are
profiting off the blood and sweat of others.  They are doing everything
they can to, quite literally, steal the customer base of Redhat.  And
while some among us may think this is fine, just a form of capitalism,
it isn't: the company they are trying to steal customers from is THE
SAME COMPANY THEY ARE GETTING THE SOURCES FROM FOR THEIR OWN DISTRIBUTION.

Sorry to shout, but it seems that a few of you want to brush this under
the rug.  If you want to spin it as just business as usual you are free
to do so; but you're deluding yourself and basically full of it.  And
please stop referencing Novell, SuSE or anyone else.  This isn't about
them.  This is solely about what a reprehensible company Ellison put
together and their shady and downright shitty business practices.





							John
-- 
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

-- Truman Capote (1924-1984), American writer, Portraits and Observations,
   The Essays of Truman Capote, "Self Portrait" (1972)
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