Alan, Good links, but if you were going to emphasize that Oracle gave some code to the community, Microsoft gave the double. Even worst Oracle has "Unbreakable Linux (sic)", which is no more than a glorified clon of Red Hat (love Red Hat by the way). So in short, they gave up a little, steal a lot and close the source of everything that they can. That's really how Oracle "loves" the opensource!
Being the kind of company Oracle is, the size of the Linux related projects, you would expect a little more from them. Red Hat gave an 11% of the code. Microsoft 4% and Oracle 2% This is not against you, but Oracle as a company is not committed to help the open source. I saw the link with your contribution and that's great, but that doesn't solve the bottom line for Oracle. Best regards On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Alan Coopersmith < alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: > >> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a > charity, > >> and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, > > > > You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support > for > > an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the Open > Source > > community almost nothing. RH had produced and donated pieces of software, > > but Oracle and Microsoft have done quite the opposite. > > http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the > Linux 3.0 > release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running > Linux > as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs & general kernel tuning). > > http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux & other open > source > products. > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE1MQ > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
