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.
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