Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
Oracle responds to Red Hat
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Even ORACLE is calling out Red Hat.
Who's next, Apple?
Currently testing Debian in a VM, I have lots of files so I need to set everything straight before I switch.
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Not because Oracle likes open source, but because they like to profit from RedHat's hard work.
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I suppose Apple uses Linux in some of their servers, so maybe. But their desktop product is Darwin so I don't think that's getting any votes
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Their desktop product is a stolen BSD.
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Indeed, but with that kind of licensing there's nothing stopping them. We already found limitations of GPL with RedHat, I think all of these licenses need an overhaul
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Note that they still share code for much of Darwin, even where the license does not require it: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions
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True, but from what I hear, the dumps don't really help much. Better than nothing, I suppose
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If they wanted their code to be sharealike, the developers could have chosen a different license. Apple is contributing more than is required so don't complain?
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The point is Apple doesn't actually want to help the community - they might be hoping that someone goes through their dumps and finds a vulnerability and reports it to them. Free community sourced labour.
If they really wanted to help, MacOS should have been GPLv3. But we know that's not how Apple functions.
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