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MySQL is also FLOSS right? It's not about it being FLOSS or not, its about their stewardship of open innovation projects. No surprise that super commercial/ leg
by cies 5y ago
MySQL is also FLOSS right? It's not about it being FLOSS or not, its about their stewardship of open innovation projects. No surprise that super commercial/ legal heavy company is not great at it.
Not saying I love Goolge, Facebook or even MS these days, but they seem to play it A LOT nicer that Oracle in that regard.
- kaba0 5y agoDoubt. Oracle was the company that did finally open-source java completely, making every single previously paid-only feature found in OracleJDK available for free/libre in OpenJDK, of which they are responsible for 99% of all commits. Also, the language has been doing exceedingly well under their stewardship.
- cies 5y agoI know. Still stories like this would not come out of ASF or EclipseF. https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/16/oracle_jdk_free_license/ https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/16/oracle_jdk_free_licen... It's messy.
- kaba0 5y agoBecause it is free ‘paid support’ for OracleJDK? Is red hat linux also scammy for having fedora and a paid distro as well? OpenJDK of which OracleJDK is just a fork is absolutely free and libre.