Oracle responds to Red Hat

  • Raphael@lemmy.worldEnglish
    301·
    2 years ago

    Even ORACLE is calling out Red Hat.

    Who’s next, Apple?

    Currently testing Debian in a VM, I have lots of files so I need to set everything straight before I switch.

    • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I suppose Apple uses Linux in some of their servers, so maybe. But their desktop product is Darwin so I don’t think that’s getting any votes

        • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Indeed, but with that kind of licensing there’s nothing stopping them. We already found limitations of GPL with RedHat, I think all of these licenses need an overhaul

  • camr_on@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    By the way, if you are a Linux developer who disagrees with IBM’s actions and you believe in Linux freedom the way we do, we are hiring.

    🤨

  • trachemys@lemmy.worldEnglish
    72·
    2 years ago

    Cheering for Oracle is certainly an unexpected turn of events, but here we are. They are absolutely right that RedHatIBM’s motivations are simply to kill competition and obtain vendor lock-in by ending RHEL compatibility. RedHat is truly dead.

    • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Cheering for Oracle is certainly an unexpected turn of events, but here we are.

      Oracle is literally freeloading RHEL without giving anything back. If they were an active Fedora and CentOS contributor, I would have sympathy but they are not.

      RedHat is truly dead.

      Red Hat is (at the moment at least) still the biggest FOSS supporter around. Oracle’s behavior makes clear that they have absolutely no interest in picking up contributions in upstream FOSS community projects.

  • mino@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    Sure, corporations gonna corporate, capitalism sucks…

    But I felt this article was written in a sincere spirit to keep Linux open and multiparty. There are obviously many more reasons for such a sentiment than just the natural urge to undress and smoke up (I know, puzzles me too). However in these times of often direct aggression to anything I know and love I welcomed it a sight for sour eyes.

  • Gashole711@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    I’ll never use an Oracle product and IBM is a soulless corporation. Debian is a much better product anyway but they’re missing some of the really good enterprise features that Red Hat has. I hope at some point they have solutions for Satellite and IDM.