[LINK] Oracle & Open Source

[Craig Sanders]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 11:53:41AM +1000, Deus Ex Machina wrote:
> http://weblog.ipcentral.info/archives/2006/08/oracle_open_sou_1.html
> [...]
> 
> Sherlund also points to an an interview last week that Oracle Chairman
> Larry Ellison did with Forbes.com. In the interview, Ellison made it
> clear that he has interest in the market - and that he has no reason to
> buy Red Hat: 
> 
> 	.[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?. "

for the same reason that a foreign company bought Arnotts biscuits when
they could have easily made biscuits of their own.

for the brand name, stupid.

for someone who thinks that "intellectual property" is real and as valid
as actual property, you're remarkably slow to recognise the value of a
trade mark.

craig

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craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>           (part time cyborg)