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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2013 11:51 AM, Fernando Cassia
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:36 PM,
Edward Martinez <span dir="ltr"><<a
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Did not read the entire report but judging by the
title, appears they're spreading FUD.<br>
Such to mention a few how open source is doing well
in the military, Linux was selectedfor the United States
Army Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) program<br>
and NetBSD was used in NASA's SAMS II project;
measuring the microgravity environment on the ISS.</blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Its not uncommon, I wrote recently
about several examples of blatant FUD, to the Apache
Openoffice mailing list. <br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Oracle, like IBM is not a "pure open
source" firm, but they, like IBM, contribute A LOT both in
terms of manpower and financially (developers salaries) to
FOSS projects. Now, Im a pragmatist, I applaud mixed-license
corporations when they invest in FOSS. The FOSS ecosystem is
bigger, better and of more quality with them than witout them.
Without Oracle investing in Btrfs, Linux wouldnt have a
filesystem that can go head-to-head with Microsoft's latest
ReFS.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Without Oracle's traction neither SAP
nor Apple nor AMD would have contributed like they do, with
OpenJDK. And Netbeans wouldn't have evolved from a mostly-Java
IDE to a terrific IDE also for PHP, C++ and now even HTML5
development. And Oracle funded all this even des[ite having
its own closed source Java IDE, JDeveloper (which now,
interestingly, has been moved to run atop of the Netbeans
engine, which is to say, Netbeans FOSS is engulfing the
previous closed source product).<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">Of course, like in any firm as big as
IBM or Oracle, different product divisions fight for their own
sales turf. If you ask a IBM AIX sales or support person what
is best, Linux or Aix, Im sure tjeyll enumerate reasons why
Linux is a toy compared to Unix. Same within Oracle. But what
I care about is not what the devs of Oracle DB think but
rather what the Oracle Linux, MySQL, Virtualbox and OpenJDK
devs *do*.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">The rest is simply FUD... which I'm
sure wont stop anytime soon, from people too narrow minded
that think that the FOSS ecosystem would be better without
Oracle (or IBM for that matter).<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra">FC<br>
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Very well considered and well written article<br>
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thank you.<br>
Roger<br>
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