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Didn't they just start suing people for using it without paying two years ago? What was the point of that if they were just going to open source it?
by resoluteteeth 9y ago
Didn't they just start suing people for using it without paying two years ago? What was the point of that if they were just going to open source it?
- KMag 9y agoMy best guess is that their plan A of getting a lot of money out of unauthorized users didn't pan out, so they switched to plan B: open-source it in order to make the ecosystem more attractive and discourage people from leaving the ecosystem. Trying one thing, gathering data, and later deciding on another course of action isn't necessarily inconsistent.
- DannyB2 9y agoAll it means is that Oracle will do the right thing after exhausting all other options.