Re:Keep Linux Open and Free–We Can’t Afford Not To
by sangnoir on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:34PM
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> Oracle does care about open source
* killed OpenSolaris
* killed OpenOffice (after refusing to hand grant trademarks & related IP to the community until it was too late - well after LibreOffice replaced it on most distros, then dumped it on the Apache Project)
* killed Hudson (after refusing to hand grant trademarks & related IP to the community until it was too late - well after Jenkis had replaced it on the market distros, then dumped it on the Apache Project)
* Attempted to make case law that APIs fall under copywrite. Appealed all the way up to SCOTUS. Countless open source projects are re-implement proprietary APIs (e.g. S3 protocol, Wine/Proton). Had the decison gone the other way, it would have been catastrophic
* killed OpenSolaris
* killed OpenOffice (after refusing to hand grant trademarks & related IP to the community until it was too late - well after LibreOffice replaced it on most distros, then dumped it on the Apache Project)
* killed Hudson (after refusing to hand grant trademarks & related IP to the community until it was too late - well after Jenkis had replaced it on the market distros, then dumped it on the Apache Project)
* Attempted to make case law that APIs fall under copywrite. Appealed all the way up to SCOTUS. Countless open source projects are re-implement proprietary APIs (e.g. S3 protocol, Wine/Proton). Had the decison gone the other way, it would have been catastrophic