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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by adventured on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:27PM (#30366671)
No, not everything negative is the new Oracle. AWS has very little in common with how Oracle has operated historically.

Oracle didn't build their company in the style of AWS Redis, that cloning maneuver. Oracle's database was a pioneer. Oracle didn't get where they are by cloning open source and claiming it as their own. Despite the numerous bad things that can be said about Oracle's culture, that's not one of the key negatives about Oracle.

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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by LoveGracePeace on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @05:31PM (#30366728)
Agreed. Not an Oracle fan boy but they didn't deserve to be brought up in the context.
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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by dralley on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:04PM (#30367075)
They killed and re-proprietarized OpenSolaris.
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Re:Elastic and Amazon reach agreement on trademark infringem... by ghaff on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @06:15PM (#30367179)
Had OpenSolaris developed a sufficient community outside of Sun/Oracle, this would have been much less of an issue. Which is why community is a big deal. A large company can always decide that some project is no longer interesting and, if they're the only ones supporting it, it's going to die. They certainly have no obligation to support it.
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