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Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To - Oracle Blog (www.oracle.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Five to c/foss

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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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[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would trust a wacky waving inflatable tube man at a used Renault car dealer before I would trust Oracle with absolutely anything of any value whatsoever.

[–] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

That is oddly specific put pretty accurate

[–] milkjug 7 points 1 year ago

Brutal burn!

[–] bl_r 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

While this article has been hilarious, I really wish it was more than just opportunistic talk from a corporation that likely only cares about this because it makes it harder for them to produce oracle linux. I mean, after all, Oracle believes that APIs are proprietary and hates interoperability.

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[–] aes 21 points 1 year ago

I suppose I'll be watching two pile of snakes pretending to be people for the duration of which this plays out.

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?"

[–] Five 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] brainfreeze 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Fucks sake, did they really do that?

[–] Serenus 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, IBM supplied a ton of computers to the Nazis during the war, as well as expertise on implementation/usage, from my understanding.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html

[–] lemmyatom 7 points 1 year ago

Wow. TIL...

[–] rambaroo 6 points 1 year ago

Yes they're owned by IBM now.

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[–] jherazob 4 points 1 year ago

Every time a company gets bought it dies, and the buyers start wearing it's skin. We must learn to always look past the skin suit.

[–] AletheCrow@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

That ending is beautiful.

[–] Thrashy 6 points 1 year ago

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made A Good Point