John Plocher wrote: > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010, Garrett D'Amore wrote to PSARC-ext: >> Ultimately, you won't be able to dictate terms to Oracle about how it should >> manage its code or its IP, or even its trademarks. ?At present the ON >> "upstream" is Oracle's code; the gatekeepers serve as Oracle employees >> acting in Oracle's interests. >>... >> I don't think anyone (at least in management) at Oracle believes that it >> is in Oracle's best interest that one of its flagship products should be held >> completely hostage to the demands of a community who may or may >> not have Oracle's best interests at heart. > > Wow. > > What a complete change of corporate perspective and individual attitude.
I see no change here except the word "Oracle" replacing "Sun". I think you're looking at the pre-merger case with glasses so heavily rose tinted they blind. > If this is indeed a valid reflection of Oracle's mindset, we've gone > from an open community of developers in 2005 where Sun actively moved > development and decision making out into the community, to its > opposite, where everything is slowly getting sucked back into Oracle. Except for the "Decision making" part, which is what Garrett seemed to be talking about. If you want the OGB to get (no doubt ineffectually, if what you suppose to be true actually is), it seems better to wait for behaviour both *markedly different* and bad before doing it. -- Rich
