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HN has a strong built-in bias against Oracle, largely due to its litigious bent, just so you know.
by ericd 14y ago
HN 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.