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I can't understand how IBM & Red Hat can see this article and the statements from Oracle and not think. "Are we the bad guys?"
by Decabytes 3y ago
I can't understand how IBM & Red Hat can see this article and the statements from Oracle and not think. "Are we the bad guys?"
- diffeomorphism 3y agoIf oracle is on the opposite side, you are probably fine.
- dralley 3y agoDisclosure: I work for Red Hat. It was only a year ago that Oracle was attempting to argue in front of the Supreme Court of the United States that adopting any kind of preexisting API was copyright infringement, and also shouldn't fall under fair use. To hear them talking about "freedom" and "openness" only makes me chuckle at their incredible hubris. If they believed in these words they wouldn't have closed off Solaris (to everyone, including their customers), kept ZFS in licensing purgatory for their own benefit, or attempted to victimize all of FOSS in pursuit of shaking down Google for loose change. I'm not exactly thrilled with the recent series of events, but I somehow do not find Oracle's attempt at shaming very convincing.
- bsder 3y agoI would argue the reverse. Anybody on the same side as Oracle should be asking really hard questions. I suspect that RedHat's moves were specifically aimed straight at Oracle with AWS a distant second.