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Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To - Oracle Blog
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Red Hat contributes a lot to the Linux kernel and has a history of open-sourcing many of their previously closed-sourced acquisitions.
Oracle bought Sun and then tried to claim that anyone who used the Java API owed them money.
Red Hat is redeemable. What Oracle is trying to do here is like Sauron saying "Hey guys, I really care about ~~open source~~ Middle Earth and want to make things super chill again! Oh, and hey, y'all want some free rings?"
Let's be clear, Red Hat is no more. It is now a set of labels and brands on the marionette strings of IBM, the "let's sell jew-counting machines to the Nazis" people.
Fucks sake, did they really do that?
Oh, don't worry. They played for both sides and helped America as well.
And by "helped America", I mean helped facilitate the internment of over a hundred thousand civilians of Japanese descent.
But still, they helped in the war effort, I suppose. Who they helped just depends on your perspective at any given time.
Good lord! I had no idea about all that. I appreciate the info.
Yeah, IBM supplied a ton of computers to the Nazis during the war, as well as expertise on implementation/usage, from my understanding.
https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html
Wow. TIL...
Yes they're owned by IBM now.
Every time a company gets bought it dies, and the buyers start wearing it's skin. We must learn to always look past the skin suit.