Oracle slams IBM's Red Hat over RHEL paywall
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Big Blue is just a gold digger, says avid auditor of software licenses

While I’m not a fan of what RH is doing here, the idea of Oracle as a community-minded open source champion is a bit too rich for my taste.

  • JupdownEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Oh yeah sure mhm

    “While Oracle and IBM have compatible Linux distributions, we have very different ideas about our responsibilities as open source stewards and about operating under the GPLv2,” the Oracle pair said, taking the opportunity to encourage code contributions to Oracle Linux and to tease about potential job opportunities.

    “Oracle has always made Oracle Linux binaries and source freely available to all. We do not have subscription agreements that interfere with a subscriber’s rights to redistribute Oracle Linux. On the other hand, IBM subscription agreements specify that you’re in breach if you use those subscription services to exercise your GPLv2 rights.”

    Here’s how I interpret it:

    “Oh no, IBM cut off access to our source repository. Please contribute to our distro instead of RHEL because we’re had such a good track record with FOSS. Maybe you’ll even get a job out of it UwU”

    To which I say: Oracle, FUCK YOU