[CentOS] libre office

Wed Jul 11 12:06:58 UTC 2012
Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com>

On 07/11/2012 07:28 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Most informed people know how much Oracle has
>> contributed to OSS, but also how it has tried 'monetize' other stuff
> Gee, someone could think that they are a for-profit corporation, like
> IBM (whose DB2 is NOT open source, or Lotus Notes, also NOT open
> source), yet I don´t see the level of IBM hatred that I routinely see
> wrt ORCL.
>
> When any corporation puts money into the development of FOSS
> technologies (like IBM, Oracle, and RedHat has done, I applaud them).
> Yet, some people always find a need to bash those, as having an evil
> agenda, namely *god forbid* the PROFIT word...
I think it is more the fact the Oracle seems to be two faced in their dealings with foss as
opposed to IBM.

> But like you say business as usual or "move along, nothing to see here". ;)
>
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