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Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) was my first-ever open source operating system. If you'd told me, 25 years ago, that one day Red Hat would withhold source from the Linu
by torstenvl 3y ago
Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) was my first-ever open source operating system. If you'd told me, 25 years ago, that one day Red Hat would withhold source from the Linux community, and that Oracle would be the champion of contributing back, I never would have believed you.
This feels a little bit like when Ahmadinejad called out Putin for being a tyrannical narcissist.
- phendrenad2 3y agoI would have believed it. Red Hat always felt like a faceless corporation. And Oracle is just the successor to Sun Microsystems.
- adql 3y agoSun was FAR better than Oracle
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y ago> And Oracle is just the successor to Sun Microsystems. Oracle closed the formerly Open Source OpenSolaris, so no, I would not give them that credit.