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> They cloned RHEL because an unhealthy, dependent ecosystem was built around the one, singular linux distribution, not because they are unwilling to fund work.

> They cloned RHEL because an unhealthy, dependent ecosystem was built around the one, singular linux distribution, not because they are unwilling to fund work. They cloned RHEL to spite Red Hat for the JBoss acquisition in the mid-2000s.

chasil 3y ago
...because Oracle themselves had bought BEA Systems, owner of Weblogic. JBoss was a competitor to Weblogic. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEA_Systems https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BEA_Systems
- dralley 3y ago
  Your timeline is wrong. JBoss was acquired by Red Hat in 2006, then Oracle Linux was announced a few months later also in 2006, then Oracle bought BEA Systems in 2007. Oracle and Red Hat both entered the bidding for JBoss and Red Hat ended up winning. Larry Ellison took this very poorly.
  - chasil 3y ago
    Interesting, thank you for the correction. I really remembered the BEA acquisition as the prior event.
  - pjmlp 3y ago
    And now we have JFR in OpenJDK thanks to it.