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B2B space is boring. Enterprisey stuff is boring. You end up with a convoluted system that's designed to please a 1000 different costumers. Most of the problems
by hasenj 16y ago
B2B space is boring. Enterprisey stuff is boring. You end up with a convoluted system that's designed to please a 1000 different costumers. Most of the problems you'd deal with are customer-specific, nothing interesting.
System level stuff is interesting, what's boring is the enterprise.
Why are they evil? Android law suit.
Also maybe the fact they just rebrand RHEL and try to sell it. Granted, it is legal (due to the GPL), but it's still evil. They view open-source as an opportunity to leech technology for free and resell it after they rebrand it (and possible add proprietry extensions to it). Their CEO is quoted saying "if an open source product gets good enough, we'll simply take it. [...] So the great thing about open source is nobody owns it – a company like Oracle is free to take it for nothing, include it in our products and charge for support, and that's what we'll do."
- runjake 16y agoWhat's so evil about using the GPL for exactly what it was intended for? And perhaps the reason Oracle lacks similar popularity with Google, is because Oracle is soul-crushing. Although some people might say the same about Google these days.
- hasenj 16y agoRedHat does wonderful things for linux and open source, what Oracle is doing to RHEL is like bullying. Who'd want to work for such a company? Seriously. I don't care if Oracle's so called distro does any damage to RedHat or not, it's the fact that Oracle is pulling dirty moves like this; that's what makes me perceive the company as evil.
- mmaha 16y agoOracle contributions to Linux: http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/026042.htm http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/026042.htm
- barlo 16y agoSince when did Oracle sell OEL? They give it away for free. They sell support.