Oracle responds to Red Hat

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    they’ve been pretty good stewards of the Java open source project

    I am pretty sure Google (the company itself) would say otherwise.

    They’ve also been pretty horrible stewards of VirtualBox.

    Oracle is not friends with open source. To be honest, I trust RedHat over Oracle and that’s saying something.

    • Meow.tar.gz@lemmy.goblackcat.com
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      Anybody that thinks Oracle has been good stewards of the open source community, is completely whacked. They have not. I’ll trust RH over Oracle as well.

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      Oh wow, I had blocked out the virtual box guest additions debacle/shake-down from my memory. It almost felt like entrapment, the way they went about it.

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          VirtualBox is free and open source, the windows guest additions piece is not. However, they’re both available for free download from the same site and they do not make any distinction between those two (at least at the time, haven’t looked). They were waiting for companies to download the guest additions piece and going after them to shake down licensing fees. While I don’t recall/know exactly, it seemed like they were almost exclusively going after companies they already had commercial relationships with to add more licensing fees to existing contracts. So yes, from my perspective they were shaking down customers after trying to entrap them with ambiguous free downloads. They had the legal right to do so, but it felt in bad faith.

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        Yeah we had to deal with that too, but are definitely not even using VirtualBox for anything. Seems like they gave up easy in our case.