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Re:Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-s... by fierarul on Sunday July 12, 2020 @09:55AM (#23811308)
Tempest in a teapot. What's wrong with competing open source foundations? Wrong people on the board?!

I find this supremely rich considering OpenJDK is 100% Oracle and not under the wing of any foundation. So much for open governance. Of course OpenJDK as an internal Oracle project has some hybrid imaginary "board" where Oracle has 2 of the 5 seats by default and you need 4 votes to veto something (which means, no dice without Oracle).

IBM of all should be used to fork projects just to control the pace and trademark. See the recent GraalVM fork (made by RedHat).

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Re:Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-s... by tomComb on Sunday July 12, 2020 @11:51AM (#23812227)
This is about pushing Google too live up to its commitments, and to its reputation as one of the biggest supporters of open source.

Comparing it to Oracle (or AWS etc) is a bit of a red herring as they are no friends to open source and make no bones about being ruthlessly out for themselves.

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Re:Google has ticked off IBM, Oracle, and many in the open-s... by fierarul on Sunday July 12, 2020 @05:29PM (#23814914)
As an outsider all I see is political struggle of the kind corporations create.

As an user of open source I don't see why I would be stressed out this project didn't land under the stewardship of CNCF, a foundation created just 5 years ago.

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