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minus-squareKerb@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up3·edit-21 year agoFrom what i get, It seems like they are pissed at oracle specifically, Selling a oracle branded rhel clone with minor tweaks and a oracle certified sticker. And the other downstream distros are just collateral damage. Obviously wouldn’t make it better (But imo more understandable)
minus-squareconciselyverbose@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 year agoThe literal point of GPL is that Oracle is explicitly entitled to do exactly that. You don’t own the code.
minus-squareJeena@jemmy.jeena.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoWe had this already with mongodb, Elastic search and AWS. It’s not sustainable to give away your work to your competitors so they can make the money.
From what i get,
It seems like they are pissed at oracle specifically,
Selling a oracle branded rhel clone with minor tweaks and a oracle certified sticker.
And the other downstream distros are just collateral damage.
Obviously wouldn’t make it better
(But imo more understandable)
The literal point of GPL is that Oracle is explicitly entitled to do exactly that. You don’t own the code.
We had this already with mongodb, Elastic search and AWS. It’s not sustainable to give away your work to your competitors so they can make the money.