On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:> > It seems to me that if Oracle was serious in investing in free software, > four years would've been plenty of time for Oracle to show how much > development effort they are willing to put forth, and for their product to > evolve into a competitive brand. Indeed, and just look at what they did with OpenSolaris. Dead. Look at what they're doing with Java - suing free software makers over patents. Look at the dramas with MySQL, and now they've tripled the cost of the base support license (PostgreSQL anyone?). Look at what they've done with the formerly free OpenOffice.org plugin for MS Office - no longer free. Now, what are they gonna do with OpenOffice.org going forward? Whatever they think is in their best corporate interests of course, but rest assured they are not a "free software company" like Red Hat. Developers were right to leave OpenOffice.org and create a new project which is governed by a community, not a corporation. I trust a non-profit more than I do a corporation to have the best interests at heart for a free software project. -c -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
