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Well two points: Oracle isn’t really and hasn’t really been respected in several decades. Oracle exists for one sole purpose, which is to make Larry money. An
by tw04 2y ago
Well two points: Oracle isn’t really and hasn’t really been respected in several decades.
Oracle exists for one sole purpose, which is to make Larry money. Anything they “give away for free” almost always includes a non-obvious catch which you only discover during some future audit.
In this case it appears to be gpl and thus most likely harmless. But I’d expect either the license to change once people are hooked, or some glaring lack of functionality that’s not immediately obvious, that can only be remediated by purchasing a license of some sort.
- efitz 2y agoAnything that Oracle gives away for free today should be assumed will be converted to be monetized as soon as there is sufficient uptake in usage. Anything that Oracle makes available for community contributions should be assumed will be dramatically restricted via license when Oracle figures out how to monetize it.
- ranger_danger 2y agoFOSS can always be forked and progressed from there; see MariaDB. I think most times when a project from a big company goes closed, the features added afterwards usually only benefit other big companies anyways. Right now I prefer to be happy they ever bothered at all (to make open source things), rather than prematurely discount it entirely. Maybe you weren't implying that it should be discounted entirely, but I bet a lot of people were thinking that.