This is Larry Elison were talking about not the pushover Sun people of
yesteryears. This is a guy who enjoys competition and possibly
war. Bringing him one would just make his day :)
Azrul
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 10:06 PM, linuxmalaysia <linuxmalay...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Oracle. Im still wait and see. But Oracle already give an "erk" to me.
> They just replace SUN with Oracle and try to rebranding SUN. Hmmm.
> Wrong move for me if really want to get community to be on their side.
> By attacking Google, they already making enemies with OSS community. I
> would say, 1 more step wrongly they took it, it will be a war ....
>
> On Dec 18, 10:02 pm, Ghodmode <ghodm...@ghodmode.com> wrote:
> > Boy I sure stirred up some flames with my post about Novell on the
> > Ubuntu Malaysia Mailing list ("Novell, Open Source? ... Hah!" :
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-my/2010-December/003381.html).
> >
> > The ongoing conversation has turned to an even bigger villain: Oracle.
> > They killed OpenSolaris and sued Google for their Java implementation.
> > We're not sure what they're going to do with OpenOffice, but now we have
> > LibreOffice. And we're worried about what they're going to do to MySQL
> > and VirtualBox.
> >
> > Professionally, I have a long history with Oracle's proprietary products
> > that precedes my awareness of FLOSS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOSS
> >.
> >
> > At first, I was just going to continue replying to the email thread, but
> > I wanted better exposure and, hopefully, more feedback. So I wrote a
> > blog entry...
> >
> > http://www.ghodmode.com/blog/2010/12/is-oracle-evil/
> >
> > I'm cross-posting this email to a couple of related mailing lists as
> > well as BCC-ing a few people in this field whose opinion I respect.
> >
> > Please take a look and, if you have anything to add, comment on the
> > article. It's a quick read, but I've linked to some other related
> > stories that are also good reads. Incidentally, those stories also link
> > to other related stories that also link to other related stories...
> > They're all good reads and this has kept me busy for a week :-}
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > --
> >
> > Vince Aggrippino
> > a.k.a. Ghodmode
> >
> > For more information, or a sample of my work, visit my site
> atwww.ghodmode.com<http://www.ghodmode.com>
>
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