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Despite their OSS contributions, and the fact that they have their own Linux distro, oracle is one of the worst companies to deal with in terms of OSS. Very NI
by nubinetwork 9mo ago
Despite their OSS contributions, and the fact that they have their own Linux distro, oracle is one of the worst companies to deal with in terms of OSS. Very NIH syndrome, very gatekeep-y. I refuse to use grub because I know I'll never get bugs fixed since oracle claims ownership of the repo there as well.
- koutakun 9mo ago>I refuse to use grub because I know I'll never get bugs fixed since oracle claims ownership of the repo there as well. Wait what? Source on this? GRUB is supposed to be a GNU Project, I would've thought they'd rather die than accept any sort of Oracle ownership of it.
- fao_ 9mo agoGNU GRUB is a GNU project, yes. No idea what OP is talking about https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ https://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
- Phelinofist 9mo agoThe maintainer section lists 2/3 maintainers being from Oracle -I guess thats what OP means