Just on the matter of OpenSolaris, lot of open-source projects started by small companies and grows big and lot of them big companies start but it never get popular, open source projects highly depend on major contributor, if solaris get decent contributors then it may continue. Main reason why suns started opensolaris is to popularize solaris os as they developed it to make java perform better in these os, but that Oracle already done with Oracle LINUX os with their database and other.
Oracle have their own LINUX operating system (no reason to continue on OpenSolaris), although I can say for sure that MySQL now can't get it any bigger than what it is today, if it does then Oracle will commercialize it. Java is important for Oracle (reason they got suns), I don't think they will kill java even if they did OpenJDK is ready and lots of other vendor.
What if some open source project that Oracle depends on... e.g. the Linux kernel or a compiler... were to switch to GPL v3... Would that prevent Oracle being the ultimate douchbag and killing off Open Office, MySQL, Java, VirtualBox, etc...
Damn just listing those makes me shudder at how much of my desktop experience depends on Oracle.
I dunno the legalese but I thought GPL v3 was supposed to protect against things like this?...
Just on the matter of OpenSolaris, lot of open-source projects started by small companies and grows big and lot of them big companies start but it never get popular, open source projects highly depend on major contributor, if solaris get decent contributors then it may continue. Main reason why suns started opensolaris is to popularize solaris os as they developed it to make java perform better in these os, but that Oracle already done with Oracle LINUX os with their database and other.
kickassdj 1 year ago
Oracle have their own LINUX operating system (no reason to continue on OpenSolaris), although I can say for sure that MySQL now can't get it any bigger than what it is today, if it does then Oracle will commercialize it. Java is important for Oracle (reason they got suns), I don't think they will kill java even if they did OpenJDK is ready and lots of other vendor.
kickassdj 1 year ago
What if some open source project that Oracle depends on... e.g. the Linux kernel or a compiler... were to switch to GPL v3... Would that prevent Oracle being the ultimate douchbag and killing off Open Office, MySQL, Java, VirtualBox, etc...
Damn just listing those makes me shudder at how much of my desktop experience depends on Oracle.
I dunno the legalese but I thought GPL v3 was supposed to protect against things like this?...
librano 1 year ago