Eugen,
Oracle has a number of technologies that they've acquired that have
remained dual-licensed, and that includes acquiring InnoTech, which
they carried forward despite being able to use it as nearly an
existential threat to MySQL. In the case of their acquisition of
Sleepycat, I'm aware of open-source licensing terms becoming more
generous after the Oracle acquisition, where Oracle added a clear
stipulation that redistribution requiring commercial licensing had to
involve third parties, where prior to the acquisition Sleepycat had
taken a less more expansive interpretation that covered just about any
form of software distribution. Their record is a lot more nuanced that
you're prepared to acknowledge or allow. Lo and behold, open source
technologies acquired by Oracle remain open and are used by other open
source projects. That's not easily squared with your insistence that
the technology is "finished" by virtue of a change in corporate
ownership and requires a fork to right things. How about we talk about
the problems we are in fact having rather than letting our actions be
guided by the most suggestive rumour that floats by?
Sorry if I've not made sufficient allowances for simplistic conspiracy
theories, but unless you can show some evidence of serious research
supporting your views, the line you're talking falls before Daniel
Patrick Moynihan's remark that, "Everyone is entitled to his own
opinion, but not his own facts."
Cheers,
Bayard
Am 21 Apr 2010 um 10:40 schrieb Eugen Leitl:
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 06:51:01PM +0100, Bayard Bell wrote:
These folks running the relevant business lines have already said
publicly to the OGB that Oracle's corporate management accepts the
basic premise of OpenSolaris, so why pass the time waiting to learn
how they're going to make good on this by concocting baroque
conspiracy theories about how they're going to reverse themselves in
some material fashion or passing along rumours to that effect?
It doesn't take 'baroque conspiracy theories', just look at
Oracle's track of past technology acquisitions. The burden
of proof is quite onerous, and quite in their court. Words
are not nearly enough.
It seems the technology is finished, unless a credible fork is
forthcoming.
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