On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:24:56 Avi Miller wrote: > > oracle geeks are probably different, but geeks don't make > > important decisions in corporates like oracle. suits do. > > Actually, the Senior Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Oracle is a > massive geek. He hacks on the kernel in his spare time (under a pseudonym) > and has code in almost every product he manages. He's also 2-down from > Larry and reports directly to our Chief Corporate Architect. So, we don't > have a suit in charge of Oracle Linux, we have a geek. Hence, we have no > desire to monetise our contributions. Hell, we're the only enterprise Linux > that gives away the ISO, the updates, the errata, the bug fixes and the > feature development for free. > > Say what you will about Oracle as a whole (and I've heard most of it all), > but the Oracle Linux/VM product teams and associated upstream mainline > developers are not typical of the rest of the organisation at all.
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