On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:42 AM, ovi freebsd <li...@freebsdonline.com> wrote: > Freddie Cash wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:42 AM, ovi freebsd <li...@freebsdonline.com> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> I know this is not about FreeBSD but it is about open source and it >>> matters, >>> maybe many of you heard about last news: >>> >>> http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/20/128246 - >>> /"Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) >>> announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement under which >>> Oracle will acquire Sun >>> <http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/018363oracleharligekbtSun...> >>> common stock for $9.50 per share in cash. >>> >> >> The really interesting bit, at least for me, will be seeing what >> happens with btrfs now that Oracle has full access to ZFS. Will they >> continue development of btrfs? Will they port ZFS to Linux? Will >> they release ZFS as GPL? Will they borrow ideas from ZFS for btrfs >> and vice versa? What will this mean for the rest of the OSS world >> that is using ZFS? >> >> > > From what I know Oracle do not have a good history with open source (and not > a bad one... yet)... they only took Linux from Red Hat and are making money > of it... I don't think they will give something back to open source > community but... we'll see... >
Well the reason that Oracle branched the RHEL tree was mostly due to support issues that redhat is unable to address (i.e. they are not able to provide the level of support most large scale oracle sites need - it's not really their fault, they are a small company compared to oracle). I see no problem with a company offering support, and patches, to a clearly open sourced project. let the user decide who they give their money to. This does not even begin to address the amount of Oracle engineers that are actually working on filesystems and patches to the linux kernel to make it sorta stable to be able to run oracle in the first place. so i'm not sure one can look at a branch of rhel and deduce that oracle is going to close up mysql but i digress - this is the freebsd list :) this acquisition was clearly so oracle could ensure the future of java, and they got a decent hardware portfolio and OS thrown in for good measure. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group _______________________________________________ freebsd-chat@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-chat-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
