Re: Oracle says open source has no place in military apps

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On 10/17/2013 11:51 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:

On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Edward Martinez <edwardm1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

     Did not read the entire report but judging by the title, appears they're spreading FUD.
     Such to mention a few how open source is doing well in the military, Linux was selectedfor the United States Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program
     and NetBSD was used in NASA's SAMS II project; measuring the microgravity environment on the ISS.

Its not uncommon, I wrote recently about several examples of blatant FUD, to the Apache Openoffice mailing list.

Oracle, like IBM is not a "pure open source" firm, but they, like IBM, contribute A LOT both in terms of manpower and financially (developers salaries) to FOSS projects. Now, Im a pragmatist, I applaud mixed-license corporations when they invest in FOSS. The FOSS ecosystem is bigger, better and of more quality with them than witout them. Without Oracle investing in Btrfs, Linux wouldnt have a filesystem that can go head-to-head with Microsoft's latest ReFS.

Without Oracle's traction neither SAP nor Apple nor AMD would have contributed like they do, with OpenJDK. And Netbeans wouldn't have evolved from a mostly-Java IDE to a terrific IDE also for PHP, C++ and now even HTML5 development. And Oracle funded all this even des[ite having its own closed source Java IDE, JDeveloper (which now, interestingly, has been moved to run atop of the Netbeans engine, which is to say, Netbeans FOSS is engulfing the previous closed source product).

Of course, like in any firm as big as IBM or Oracle, different product divisions fight for their own sales turf. If you ask a IBM AIX sales or support person what is best, Linux or Aix, Im sure tjeyll enumerate reasons why Linux is a toy compared to Unix. Same within Oracle. But what I care about is not what the devs of Oracle DB think but rather what the Oracle Linux, MySQL, Virtualbox and OpenJDK devs *do*.

The rest is simply FUD... which I'm sure wont stop anytime soon, from people too narrow minded that think that the FOSS ecosystem would be better without Oracle (or IBM for that matter).

FC

Very well considered and well written article
thank you.
Roger

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