[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Ken godee <ken at perfect-image.com> wrote:
>> 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"!


Aren't the SRPMs available for OEL?  How about an "Indestructible
CentOS" sub-distro?


❧ Brian Mathis