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Here is the source blog post from oracle: https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/
RedHat really fucked up with this move. I know RedHat employees and everyone from RedHat I met so far was proud they work there and how much open source meant to the company. I guess there will be more and more redhatters looking for new opportunities in the coming months.
But Oracle? How are they better in any way? RedHat still writes FOSS software. Oracle just profited off it being easy for RHEL customers to migrate to Oracle Linux. They do add on top of RHEL, but they could built a distro themselves too.
This article reads to me like satire from Oracle.
PS: I don't like what RH done either.
Never meant to defend oracle. I dislike them even more than IBM.
IMHO Redhat cloud was just as proprietary as oracle's. Sure, Redhat was one of (if not the) the greatest contributor to open source, but since acquired by IBM it seems the momentum is going down (I don't have any data on this, only a few articles like this I've reaad)
Yes, it was indeed a really stupid move.
IBM
Everyone keeps saying redhat this, redhat that as if they're talking of an independent entity. IBM bought redhat, and probably to run it into the ground too. Fuck IBM.
By the way, I still don't believe oracle's "commitment" to open source, but that writing was a cool slap to IBM's face.
Let them fight, and rock on with Debian.
No, we need to get Canonical in on the action. 3 way brawl to the death!
Canonical has its own issues. Security updates to packages being put behind a paywall called “Ubuntu Pro” even during the LTS window is driving people away from Ubuntu right now as well.
Wait, what? I need to expedite my migration to debian.
If you want more info look here: https://ubuntu.com/security/esm
Imagine if you were trying to keep compliance and suddenly a security update was an ESM package found in the Universe repo? To get that update installed you’d have to pay Ubuntu Pro for each host you have.
They have a personal license like how Red Hat allows some licenses for personal use so if you have a few home machines it’s fine. But if you have a job that has a fleet? Not a fun time to suddenly need to pay for updates even during LTS window.
Hell, I've got probably 15 systems between vms and phy boxes at home.
Tbh, just stop using software well past it's prime, or pay the cost of developing the fixes.
Everything can't be free, at some point it's gotta cost something.
You mean the security updates they get for free from Debian?
Or are they developing their own security patches and NOT pushing it back upstream?
Exactly
Microsoft is probably considering to release an enterprise Linux product right now. Perhaps called Windows Subsystem for Enterprise Linux.
“Weasel News…”
Don't they already have Azure Linux?
Begun, the Enterprise Linux Wars have.
Yeah. I wouldn’t say I’m a huge oracle fan - and maybe this is pandering - but ibm’s move was such shit. It’s plain manipulation of gpl terms and does not really honor the intent.
Begun, the git clone wars have.
Where there's money, there's war 😬
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Oracle does a have a point though, they did release ZFS and BTRFS as open source projects. Granted, RH has done the same with other software packages, but not something as important as a FS. ZFS was a finished product, BTRFS not so much, but still, these 2 are greatly valued in the open source community.
Not siding with Oracle, I don't like them one bit, but facts are facts 🤷.
Oracle's implementation of ZFS is Proprietary software. The original version was developed with an open source model By Sun microsystems, which was bought by oracle. And Oracle contributing to the Linux Kernel with BTRFS isn't that ground breaking
Still, no one else did it... I mean, after RaiserFS, was there another FS released under GPL that was a viable alternative to EXT*?
XFS maybe?
Maybe...
BTRFS, which works great as long as you accept its limitations.
Correct... don't like that, but yes, that is correct.
Well, openZFS is quite good, but it's license is incompatible with the GPL
Yeah, that's why is not in the kernel, it's a separate package.
RedHat are key contributors to a stack of open source projects aside from the kernel itself. For example they are one of the lead contributors to QEMU, far ahead of Oracle.
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Oracle and their stupid PR stunts
Only the Taco Bell distro will survive.