Thomas Martin said, on 09/28/2010 02:43 PM:
> Perhaps it's because I'm a relative youngling when compared to the computer
> industry, but what are the implications of Oracle owning Sun? I've heard a
> lot of talk about it and have done some research, but I'm still in murky
> water regarding the topic.
From what I've heard, Oracle is a lot more "my way or the highway", and a lot less F/OSS-friendly.
Oracle ended OpenSolaris and refused to even communication with the OpenOffice.org board.
Some prominent leavers:
* The head ZFS guy (Bonwick) just announced that he's leaving:
http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/en_US/entry/and_now_page_2
* One of the main DTrace guys (Cantrill) is leaving:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2010/07/25/good-bye-sun/
* Most telling is this interview with James Gosling, father of Java, about why he left.
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Application-Development/Java-Creator-James-Gosling-Why-I-Quit-Oracle-813517/
Sun's position was that employee blog posts were the property of the employee. Oracle evan rescinded that. That should tell you something. They are a lot more "corporate" in the sense of "conscienceless machine that eats people and excretes profit" than Sun ever was.
I am glad that many of the above, and MySQL, are all open source and therefore still free/libre. Java itself is still a little up in the air, maybe.
Royce
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