Re: Oracle chief architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat

____/ Ramon F Herrera on Thursday 08 May 2008 01:32 : \____

>
> "One Oracle exec said there should be only one Linux distribution —
> Red Hat — and claimed there will be no fragmentation of that code
> base.
>
> In an interview with the Linux Foundation recently, Oracle’s chief
> corporate architect said Oracle Unbreakable Linux is not a product but
> a support program and he believes that there ought to be only one
> Linux distribution — his rival’s code base."
>
> [...]
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=2393

Oracle just wants to freeload GNU/Linux _in its entirety_. When will it actually give something back? Oh, that's right. Ellison's vocabulary is missing the word "give". No wonder Olson ditched the company.

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