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Jeff Geerling Jul 10, 2023

I never thought I'd see the day where I agree with Oracle on some #opensource matter more than Red Hat, but, well... https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

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Mike Jul 10, 2023

@geerlingguy I had to add to the thread just to say I feel ya! Your sentiment is exactly mine!

I still wouldn't say Oracle are good guys, but in this instance, yes

#oracle #redhat #linux #opensource

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Holly Schilling Jul 10, 2023

@mlippert @geerlingguy I find it interesting how people are flocking to support Oracle’s perspective. Regardless of the larger picture, Oracle’s statement is entirely self-serving. They want RH to continue to build those packages for its own RHEL knockoff. Their distro is only viable because of RH’s work.

Even their challenge/threat/offer to RH to make RHEL downstream of Oracle serves only to increase potential value of Oracle’s distro.

What I’m saying no one should align themselves with a position based on an argument that is not impartial.

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Adil Arif

@TheCodeLorax @geerlingguy Finally, a fair assessment. Oracle is just using this for publicity. If the roles were reversed, they would have never allowed the source code to be available anywhere as long as Red Hat did.