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    1 year ago

    “We didn’t buy Red Hat, and we’re mad that IBM did what we would’ve done” - Oracle

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      I fully agree that what IBM did was basically openly and flagrantly violate the GPL. I just find it very ironic that Oracle, of all companies, has the cojones to call out Red Hat when Oracle is the champion of playing unfairly with open source. Oracle is one of the companies that wrote the definition of embrace, extend, and extinguish along with Microsoft and even IBM.

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        Exactly. I don’t exactly disagree that RHEL should stay open source for all, but Oracle’s creating a bit of a pot/kettle situation here.

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          This is why the affair is laughably ironic. What I would really like to see is GNU, EFF, and the FSF pool some resources and go after IBM in the courts to get an injunction to stop this behavior. If I were a betting man, I’d say that this is in progress and that a public announcement has not yet been made.