Well considering prior statements from Oracle, the company has now lied to developers, customers, shareholders, & the general public. Word != Bond.
This material fact extends to statements & agreements prior to the sale of Sun to Oracle, as well as to statements made post-purchase. Not exactly the sort of behavior that will get the company rated as a "buy" from any interested parties. This also shows that Oracle values customers, not community of customers. Much less contributors. The only upside I can find is that it becomes pointless to waste any time caring about the future of the product since Oracle will do whatever Oracle wants. Since prior agreements do not matter, all that does matter is whatever they release whenever they bother to release it, under whatever new terms they choose at that time. It makes 5 year lifecyle planning rather awkward, but that's not Oracle's problem. I didn't think Oracle had what it takes to really be about open source, this proves that. There is no good will in this plan to say the very least about it. In fact this seems to facilitate a culture of predation that Oracle is fairly infamous for. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
