Oracle doesn’t have customers, it has hostages.
Context?
Oracle is not ok with SEL being held hostage by IBM.
The ad campaign by Oracle and SUSE is working. Red Hat made changes to the way it distributes source because they wanted other groups to use the community upstream and become part of the community instead of just copy and pasting Red Hat source. Now Oracle and SUSE are doing exactly what Red Hat was hoping the community would do while acting like they’re defying and battling Red Hat… In the end Red Hat’s goal was achieved. More community involvement with more special interest groups contributing to a better Enterprise Linux for everyone.
Corporations gonna be all corporationy
“Oracle” sounds like they were trying to be as dystopian cyberpunk as possible when naming their company.
If it weren’t for VirtualBox I would avoid them all together. It’s just so damned convenient though.
Kvm/qemu is really good too you should try it out or is there special feature holding you back on virtualbox?
Do you still have to reboot the VM to connect an USB device?
No way I’m ever gonna trust a company that is chasing profits
You should though. Because if the company is chasing profits you know for sure what they’re doing. If they are not chasing profits, then no one knows what they will do next. Like non-profit American Red Cross, who laundered half a billion and did fuck all to help Haiti https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
Like non-profit American Red Cross, who laundered half a billion and did fuck all to help Haiti https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-red-cross-raised-half-a-billion-dollars-for-haiti-and-built-6-homes
Yea, the Red Cross is fucked up, and I learned that from my dad in 1996 when he died. All about the money. I’ll send my money to St. Jude, thank you very much…
Sorry for your loss…
No one’s a good guy.
And this is why I choose Debian…
I just hope that SUSE keeps them in check for now.
I have noticed they did something in open source? But I don’t know what. Somebody got a link or sum where i can find info on what happened
Oracle stands for “One Raging Asshole Called Larry Ellison”
I understand what you’re going for, but they have made a really amazing and powerful contribution with the OpenSPARC project, which supplies the hardware description files and EXTENSIVE documentation of the micro architecture, component layout, etc. of probably the two most powerful free/libre and open-source multi-core processors ever assembled, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2. And this was released under the GNU General Public License. This is almost unbelievable, as hardware is still almost completely unfree. Sure, there are some PCBs and microcontrollers like those distributed by Arduino or Raspberry Pi, but the chip source for the processors on all of these is mostly proprietary. Regarding microprocessors, there are VERY FEW actual hardware designs available that are free/libre and open-source, and OpenSPARC is one of them. Granted, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 were released to the public when Sun Microsystems was still an independent company and before they were acquired by Oracle, but Oracle is still keeping the webpages of the OpenSPARC project up! For hardware designers that aspire to make free/libre and open-source hardware, this is an invaluable resource!
