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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by davoneus on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:06PM (#25351348)
never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle. Especially with something as important as an open source product. Evidence: Oracle's Sen. VP Glueck statement that "There is no math that can justify open source from a cost perspective." No chance you'll ever see me running OEL.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:52PM (#25351872)
> never, Ever, EVER trust Oracle.

Been burned by them before. Not at liberty to give details, but the outcome is that I never choose Oracle for anything for the rest of my career. Even if it would save time and money.

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by mulmen on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:36PM (#25355410)
The fact that you aren't comfortable discussing the details of how you were screwed by Oracle, even anonymously on the internet, is really all anyone needs to know about Oracle.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by TedDoesntTalk on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @05:46PM (#25366404)
HN is one breach away from lost anonymity.
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by apecat on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:40PM (#25351732)
Are there any license traps in Oracle Linux?

Writing like this makes me very wary of putting Oracle Linux anywhere near my employer's systems

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2992597/law-firm-warns...

https://blog.dbwatch.com/how-to-avoid-oracles-licensing-trap...

Then there's the famous lawn mover quote from Bryan Cantrill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170246

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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by TedDoesntTalk on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:56PM (#25351917)
Can you imagine if they had successfully purchased TikTok?
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by apecat on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:35PM (#25352411)
match made not in heaven but on Oracle Cloud
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Re:CentOS Project shifts focus to CentOS Stream by mekster on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @09:49PM (#25354736)
From their page, does this even read professional? Sounds like some startup wrote it trying to make them look bigger than they're.

Community based sounds better to me.

> But if you're here, you're a CentOS user. Which means that you don't pay for a distribution at all, for at least some of your systems. So even if we made the best paid distribution in the world (and we think we do), we can't actually get it to you... or can we?

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