[LINK] Oracle & Open Source

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Deus Ex Machina wrote:
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> 	.[T]he interesting thing about open source is that the intellectual
> 	property is available to all of us,. Ellison told Forbes. .So what that
> 	means is that any company can take the Red Hat Linux and use it at no
> 	cost, so long as they.re willing to support themselves. Well, that
> 	actually includes us. We could take the Red Hat Linux, as long as we.re
> 	willing to support it. In fact, we can redistribute it to others and
> 	provide support. So why would we buy Red Hat Linux, when we can just
> 	take it for nothing?. "
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...isn't the question would people buy support for RedHat Linux from 
Oracle or RedHat?

or choose Redhat linux at all? I recently got SPAMMED with something 
about SUSE Linux & Novell

My own experience in 2003, was better with Knoppix on my laptop and more 
recently playing with Ubuntu/video over the last 12months.

But ofcourse the ultimate quiet acheiver in FOSS is Apache....their 
governance model provides interesting reading and could answer glen's 
earlier question

Glen Turner wrote:
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> Interestingly, FOSS is much more likely to appear in households
> in a cost minimisation business plan.  Look at the number of
> ADSL modems that lower software development costs by using
> Linux.

<http://www.apache.org/foundation/how-it-works.html#meritocracy>
>>  Meritocracy
>>
>> Unlike other software development efforts done under an open source license, the Apache Web Server was not initiated by a single developer (for example, like the Linux Kernel, or the Perl/ Python languages), but started as a diverse group of people that shared common interests and got to know each other by exchanging information, fixes and suggestions.

Marghanita
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