| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org, Cornelia Boenigk <poppcorn(at)cornelia-boenigk(dot)de> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-13 18:01:42 |
| Message-ID: | 20060213180142.GD57845@pervasive.com |
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 04:34:23PM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> The thing is, if Oracle were to do a concerted effort to kill any of the
> above, the 'bad karma' aspect would definitely backlash against them,
> *but*, unless they took them *all* out, ppl would just migrate to one of
> the many other options (as painful as it might be to some), or you'd see
> alot of projects forking off the 'last stable OSS version' ...
I think Oracle could do everything possible to screw OSS software and it
would make barely a blip on their income statement. Sure, geeks all over
would get seriously pissed-off, but those are not the folks who make the
Oracle purchasing decisions (certainly not the big ones anyway).
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