Oracle says open source has no place in military apps

[Roger]

On 10/17/2013 11:51 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Edward Martinez <edwardm1 at live.com 
> <mailto:edwardm1 at live.com>> wrote:
>
>
>          Did not read the entire report but judging by the title,
>     appears they're spreading FUD.
>          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
>          and NetBSD was used in NASA's SAMS II project; measuring the
>     microgravity environment on the ISS.
>
>
> Its not uncommon, I wrote recently about several examples of blatant 
> FUD, to the Apache Openoffice mailing list.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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*.
>
> 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).
>
> FC
>
> Very well considered and well written article
thank you.
Roger

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/attachments/20131017/ca082468/attachment.html>