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How is what he's saying different from what RMS has said how you should make money with open source software? You might not like Ellison, but making money by of
by rajat 16y ago
How is what he's saying different from what RMS has said how you should make money with open source software? You might not like Ellison, but making money by offering support services is perfectly legitimate with open source software.
- jonknee 16y ago> You might not like Ellison, but making money by offering support services is perfectly legitimate with open source software. Agreed, but with Oracle it's more like bundling free code with very expensive not free code and then supporting the whole package. Case in point about what he mentioned regarding Apache.
- dotBen 16y agowith Oracle it's more like bundling free code with very expensive not free code and then supporting the whole package Sure but that's called a 'solution' (sorry for the enterprise corp dev speak). Most FOSS projects don't solve a customer's problem in their own right and larger customers want to buy into solutions not disparate projects that they then have to put together and maintain. These customers don't see it as X amount of free code and Y amount of 'very expensive not free code'. They just see the sum of X+Y and a price point. To use a completely left-field expression for this context: don't hate the player, hate the game.