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Why do OUL and Rocky exist if not to compete with RHEL?
by Espionage724 3y ago
Why do OUL and Rocky exist if not to compete with RHEL?
- lproven 3y agoBecause people expect to be able to get RHEL for free? Why does OUL exist -- there are two _real_ stories. [1] Oracle wanted Jboss. RH bought JBoss, allegedly to spite Oracle. Oracle retaliated with a RHEL clone. Side note: I used to work on some JBoss documentation. Probably a few lines I wrote are still in there. The strong feeling I got inside RH was "we hate Java and want to kill it." Weird when you're a staffer working on Java products. [2] Oracle was considering a hostile takeover of RH and launched a RHEL clone to make the share price drop. It didn't work. Note, these 2 theories are not mutually exclusive.