Larry Ellison is likely to come in for some flak from open source romantics who will take umbrage at comments he made during Oracle's OpenWorld conference in Japan this week. Ellison claims that IBM, Intel and Oracle developed Linux — plenty will disagree with that, although few could dispute the massive boost that Linux got when Oracle and IBM led the charge to recognise it in the late 90s. Ellison claims that Linux was not developed by a community of people who think everything should be free. But then that depends how you define free. When the majority of the open source community uses the word 'free' they are not talking in terms of money but rather 'free' as in open. ...... **************** ***************************** Kiggundu Mukasa # Computer Network Consultancy### KYM-NET LTD. # Intranets & Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel: +256 77 972255 +256 71 221141 Fax: +256 31 262122 ***************************************************************** |
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