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Oracle should open source it back, probably donate it to Apache.
by crudbug 9y ago
Oracle should open source it back, probably donate it to Apache.
- sprayk 9y agowhat's in it for Oracle?
- artursapek 9y agosome goodwill. Microsoft earned a lot of with all of the open sourcing they've been doing in the last few years.
- nickhalfasleep 9y agoMicrosoft is clawing it's way back into the agile stacks as a way to sell it's cloud services to small shops. I don't think Oracle really aims for startups or less than $10mil/year companies right now. They sell on the golf course, not the meetup or con presentation.
- cyphar 9y agoTo paraphrase Bryan Cantrill, don't fall into the trap of anthropomorphising Larry Ellison. Your lawnmower doesn't care about community goodwill either.
- artursapek 9y agoWhat? I'm saying it matters in the community of developers - and it does.
- cyphar 9y agoMy point is that "showing goodwill" is not something that makes sense within Oracle (at least that's what I've heard). I agree that acting correctly to a community is the right thing to do, but that doesn't mean it's something that Oracle will do.
- cyphar 9y agoWhy? illumos already exists and has been developed by a community and several commercial backers for almost a decade. Oracle Solaris has just been causing confusion for the free software fork (based on the original sources that were published before the Oracle acquisition of Sun).