Interesting. IBM doesn’t want to continue publicly releasing RHEL source code because it has to pay its engineers? That seems odd, given that Red Hat as a successful independent open source company chose to publicly release RHEL source and pay its engineers for many years before IBM acquired Red Hat in 2019 for $34 billion.
And perhaps that is the real answer to the question of why: eliminate competitors. Fewer competitors means more revenue opportunity for IBM.
Who the frick knew in 2023 Oracle is the good guy for Linux.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
oracle is ran by literal lizard person larry ellison who offered bush to create smart inter-state id which would be used to authorize all purchases made ever, is currently in a class action lawsuit for the data of around 8 billion people they've gathered through oracle cloud and consumer products, and are one of the parties managing the American branch of bytedance (tiktok) along with Booz Allen Hamilton, AND THEY STILL ROUTINELY sucks the NSA's peepee and defends warrentless mass surveillance in the name of "stopping terrorism."
Frick oracle, I don't give a shit if they're getting catty with IBM they should be obliterated TODAY, their linux distro sucks and they glow brighter than a man jogging by an arizona the roadside at 2AM![:marseyterrydavis: :marseyterrydavis:](/e/marseyterrydavis.webp)
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Oracle got punished by the universe at least once already when they bought the rotting corpse of Sun microsystems for billions of dollars (lol) and had to maintain Java for the rest of their existence, a fate worse than death.
Plus there was that time SAP blatantly stole shit from them and Oracle got cucked out of their judgment money. This shit all happens to them because they fricking deserve it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
https://www.davidsheff.com/larry-ellison
Goddarn I already hated Oracle for what they did to Sun but I never knew they were started by a![:marseyspyglow: :marseyspyglow:](/e/marseyspyglow.webp)
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context