On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: >> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a >> charity, >> and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, > > You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support for > an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the Open Source > community almost nothing. RH had produced and donated pieces of software, > but Oracle and Microsoft have done quite the opposite.
http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the Linux 3.0 release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running Linux as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs & general kernel tuning). http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux & other open source products. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE1MQ -- -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
