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Oracle – The Destroyer of Open Source
Posted on January 10th, 2012 by roger
Yes I know Oracle supported open source Linux in the past; but that was when they felt they needed to help in the fight against Microsoft, but since their acquisition of Sun Microsystems and MySQL it seems that Oracle is killing off open source projects; like because Larry Ellison believes that’s the road to profit, and has feared open source from the beginning.
Open Solaris is a thing of the past (though the project will likely be reincarnated as a real open source project not under the control of a big company); who knows what will happen with VirtualBox and MySQL or any one of the many other open source projects that Sun Microsystems supported.
Originally posted 2010-08-26 02:00:53.
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