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Ironically, as a t-shirt/flip-flop nerd myself, I was hoping that this would be something that would appeal to nerds, rather than pissing them off: "Hey, Oracle
by wdaher 14y ago
Ironically, as a t-shirt/flip-flop nerd myself, I was hoping that this would be something that would appeal to nerds, rather than pissing them off: "Hey, Oracle is giving me this thing that sounds useful for free".
- rdtsc 14y ago> Hey, Oracle is giving me this thing that sounds useful for free We already have that, it is called CentOS. If giving something for free means trying to trample another open source project, then 'No Thanks, I think I'll pass'.
- eropple 14y agoEven if that other project is better? I don't think Android's developers should feel super duper sad that they killed Meego's chances of rising from obscurity.
- rdtsc 14y agoNot sure how to measure "better" in this case. Better for RHEL clones usually means "less changes" than other clones and close to upstream. I guess "better" is support and speed of updates. So in case of a software project you can usually just look at the features and say "oh, look, can see how they added a,b,c and now it is exactly what I want" This is a cloning project, so the best feature is how closely it tracks upstream. But one can't know that unless one switches to it first, and I am guessing, there is enough antagonism in the community that many will not make that first step.
- eropple 14y agoSure, and I agree, but that's not what you said.
- drummer32 14y agoNokia killed Meego. IF anything Windows Phone killed Meego.
- mitchty 14y agoThe product itself is appealing. The issue is the company behind it. I don't disagree with anyone that is wary of Oracles motivation with this product. I also don't disagree that the product itself is nice. But given Oracles known interactions and history with open source an attitude of "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me" isn't unwarranted.
- abjr 14y agoYeah, the first one's always free...
- ericd 14y agoHN has a strong built-in bias against Oracle, largely due to its litigious bent, just so you know.
- rbanffy 14y agoNot only due to the litigious bent. Many past events left a bitter taste - the management of the MySQL products, the end of OpenSolaris (which was a very good Unix distro - and one that lives on) and so on. This can be interpreted as an attempt to suck the air out of CentOS and Red Hat at the same time. Considering Oracle's past, the hypothesis cannot be ruled out easily.
- ericd 14y agoYeah, litigation is by no means the only reason. It's just one of the clearest expressions of their relatively shitty corporate mindset.
- metachris 14y agoAnd don't forget the Hudson fiasco! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software))
- chris_wot 14y agoNot to mention their bloody awful support.