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

Roger <arelem@xxxxxxxxxxx> · Thu, 17 Oct 2013 12:31:07 +1100



    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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