nixCraft 🐧Poll: Do you think RHEL will lose enterprises market share to Open Enterprise #Linux created by Suse and Oracle Linux?
Yes
No
I don’t use Linux
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Chris Petersen@nixCraft I'm only about a 51% yes vote. Losing some seems inevitable between the "you're not open anymore" crowd, the "we'll pay less to anyone" crowd, and the "shrug, it's just another distro" crowd. I'm a little hazy on how some things will be bug-for-bug compatible if RH is back-porting fixes that don't necessarily ever go up-stream, but then I'm in the "never touch anything with Oracle's taint on it if possible" crowd...
🅱🅻🆄🅴🅱️I would be interested in what Oracle has done that makes you not trust them so much. Could be enlightening.
@BlueBee @nixCraft Gaming benchmarks, wildly misleading ad campaigns, massive failures of technical support, price gouging, etc. But, why would I willing do business with a company justifiably infamous for extortionate licensing terms and threatening to sue their own customers (and everyone else) over and over? The f'ups around their T4 hardware generation left a lot of lasting scars...
Gary T. Giesen@BlueBee @ChrisPetersenCS @nixCraft
Oracle has a long history of misdeeds. Ones in recent memory are paid Java licensing for desktop usage post Java 8 and closing the OpenSolaris source code and taking contributors' code with it under a CAA
They also have a long history of extortionate business practices. Pray you never need Oracle software because once they get their hooks in you, the pain will never end.
There's a reason that MySQL, OpenOffice, and OpenSolaris were all forked.
@BlueBee @ChrisPetersenCS @nixCraft
For a great perspective from the Sun/Solaris side, I encourage you to check out @bcantrill 's presentation at LISA11: https://youtu.be/-zRN7XLCRhc
Bryan Cantrill is an engaging and entertaining speaker and well worth sitting through all of it.
LISA11 - Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos
@ggiesen @BlueBee @nixCraft @bcantrill 100%! He is a great one, and thanks for that trip down memory lane with SunOS/Solaris. I skipped around on it from about '87 to '13, and he's right about what a departure Solaris 10 was...
@ggiesen @ChrisPetersenCS @nixCraft @bcantrill
Listened. Unfortunately that their illumos didn't work out, but good to see the passionate fuck you to Oracle for closing source.