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Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To - Oracle Blog (www.oracle.com)
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Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I wish in my dreams for both of these companies to destroy each othr, but alas, it will almost certainly not be so >.<

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  • [–] 23 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Red Hat contributes a lot to the Linux kernel and has a history of open-sourcing many of their previously closed-sourced acquisitions.

    Oracle bought Sun and then tried to claim that anyone who used the Java API owed them money.

    Red Hat is redeemable. What Oracle is trying to do here is like Sauron saying "Hey guys, I really care about open source Middle Earth and want to make things super chill again! Oh, and hey, y'all want some free rings?"

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Let's be clear, Red Hat is no more. It is now a set of labels and brands on the marionette strings of IBM, the "let's sell jew-counting machines to the Nazis" people.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Fucks sake, did they really do that?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Oh, don't worry. They played for both sides and helped America as well.

    And by "helped America", I mean helped facilitate the internment of over a hundred thousand civilians of Japanese descent.

    But still, they helped in the war effort, I suppose. Who they helped just depends on your perspective at any given time.

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