Matthew Garrett  

Let's not cheer for a company that attempted to assert that APIs were independently copyrightable

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Matthew Garrett  

Oracle attempted one of the largest landgrabs in IP history and if they'd succeeded would have fucked over the entire software ecosystem. They turned Solaris from an open source OS to a proprietary one. Being on the right side on a single issue doesn't mean they're the good guys.

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lj·rk  

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They also killed/withdrew support from MySQL, StarOffice/OpenOffice, Java, ZFS, SPARC, …

Also, isn't the RHEL source still available through their git forge? I still don't get half of the discourse :'-)

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Adil Arif
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@ljrk Actually, Oracle has done an amazing job with Java. They have put in more resources than Sun Microsystems ever did and increased community participation. Java is better now than it ever was under Sun Microsystems.

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