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As much as I dislike Oracle's biz practices (I'd not touch their db product with a stick), they do a lot of FLOSS devt: https://opensource.oracle.com/ https://

by cies 2y ago

As much as I dislike Oracle's biz practices (I'd not touch their db product with a stick), they do a lot of FLOSS devt: https://opensource.oracle.com/ https://opensource.oracle.com/ (almost endless list) But then they have take FLOSS projects and abandoned them, see OOo for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#/media/File:StarOffice_major_derivatives.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_OpenOffice#/media/File:...

thayne 2y ago
Looking through that list, most of the big projects (OpenJDK, Mysql, Opengrok) were inherited as part of acquisitions.
- chasil 2y ago
  Oracle has been a prolific contributor to the Linux kernel. https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-is-the-1-contributor-to-the-linux-kernel https://blogs.oracle.com/linux/post/oracle-is-the-1-contribu... XFS is really important for (their) database performance, so quite a lot comes out of Oracle for it. You might also know that btrfs began at Oracle. https://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+blog+xfs https://www.google.com/search?q=oracle+blog+xfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs "Chris Mason, an engineer working on ReiserFS for SUSE at the time, joined Oracle later that year and began work on a new file system based on these B-trees."
- nirvdrum 2y ago
  > Looking through that list, most of the big projects (OpenJDK, Mysql, Opengrok) were inherited as part of acquisitions. I see this argument a lot, but I'm not sure how it detracts from their continued development. Oracle funds many engineers working on OSS and, despite having CLAs in place, retain the permissive license for most of them. In some cases they've acquired closed source software and made it open source (e.g., JRockit stuff). They're a major contributor to OSS.