Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by t0m44c on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:34AM
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Did SUSE coordinate this announcement With Oracle? Because they also announced similar thing yesterday https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-ope...
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Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by kijin on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:54AM
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Oracle talking about "open and free". Didn't think I would live to see that happening...
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by userbinator on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @09:14AM
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Remember when MS changed from being heavily against Linux to "Microsoft loves open source"?
Whatever benefits their bottom line.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by AviationAtom on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @10:47AM
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Oracle today is what Microsoft was 15 years ago. It would be shocking to see Oracle resemble what Microsoft is today to open source, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by binary_ninja on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @08:27AM
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Is it me or there was a certain passive-agressivenes on that Oracle article?
Re:SUSE Preserves Choice in Enterprise Linux by Forking RHEL
by B1FF_PSUVM on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @06:31PM
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Sheesh, that's not passive ...
"Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden."