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never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle. Especially with something as important as an open source product. Evidence: Oracle's Sen. VP Glueck statement that "There is no

never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle. Especially with something as important as an open source product. Evidence: Oracle's Sen. VP Glueck statement that "There is no math that can justify open source from a cost perspective." No chance you'll ever see me running OEL.

apecat 6y ago
Are there any license traps in Oracle Linux? Writing like this makes me very wary of putting Oracle Linux anywhere near my employer's systems https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns-of-oracles-licensing-traps.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns... https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-traps https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-trap... Then there's the famous lawn mover quote from Bryan Cantrill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  Can you imagine if they had successfully purchased TikTok?
  - apecat 6y ago
    match made not in heaven but on Oracle Cloud
TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
> never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle. Been burned by them before. Not at liberty to give details, but the outcome is that I never choose Oracle for anything for the rest of my career. Even if it would save time and money.
- mulmen 6y ago
  The fact that you aren't comfortable discussing the details of how you were screwed by Oracle, even anonymously on the internet, is really all anyone needs to know about Oracle.
  - TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
    HN is one breach away from lost anonymity.
mekster 6y ago
From their page, does this even read professional? Sounds like some startup wrote it trying to make them look bigger than they're. Community based sounds better to me. > But if you're here, you're a CentOS user. Which means that you don't pay for a distribution at all, for at least some of your systems. So even if we made the best paid distribution in the world (and we think we do), we can't actually get it to you... or can we?

apecat 6y ago

Are there any license traps in Oracle Linux? Writing like this makes me very wary of putting Oracle Linux anywhere near my employer's systems https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns-of-oracles-licensing-traps.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns... https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-traps https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-trap... Then there's the famous lawn mover quote from Bryan Cantrill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
Can you imagine if they had successfully purchased TikTok?
- apecat 6y ago
  match made not in heaven but on Oracle Cloud

TedDoesntTalk 6y ago

> never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle. Been burned by them before. Not at liberty to give details, but the outcome is that I never choose Oracle for anything for the rest of my career. Even if it would save time and money.

mulmen 6y ago
The fact that you aren't comfortable discussing the details of how you were screwed by Oracle, even anonymously on the internet, is really all anyone needs to know about Oracle.
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
  HN is one breach away from lost anonymity.

mekster 6y ago

From their page, does this even read professional? Sounds like some startup wrote it trying to make them look bigger than they're. Community based sounds better to me. > But if you're here, you're a CentOS user. Which means that you don't pay for a distribution at all, for at least some of your systems. So even if we made the best paid distribution in the world (and we think we do), we can't actually get it to you... or can we?