[OpenIndiana-discuss] Longterm Support? And Oracle Java legal to use on OpenIndiana?

[Nathan Evans]

Don't put it passed him
Larry Ellison us pure evil. He doesn't care about technology, our
contributions, or his own company.
Anything that doesn't make him money, stays in his 'I can use this to sue
somebody' pile of broken shadows of companies he's acquired and destroyed
over the years.

He stifles innovation where ever he goes, kills projects and any company can
threaten him.

Just imagine what the OSS community could do with all that code he just has
lying about doing nothing.

On 4 November 2010 08:59, Jacob Ritorto <jacob.ritorto at gmail.com> wrote:

> Oh yeah, right.  I listened to that recent interview with Gosling.  I think
> it the Java issue was mentioned in there. That gist of it was that Java
> isn't free; that Oracle now owns the patent on the technology and are using
> it for evil -- i.e. trolling around predatorially suing people to try to get
> money and establish precedent of power; hence the Google lawsuit (sorry to
> use that plaguing word again) and hence Gosling's "Java: Just Free It"
> campaign.  What Sun (thank goodness) did manage to do, before it was too
> late, was to GPL the official Sun implementation of Java.  So I think (and
> IANAL) that means we're at least indemnified from suit if we use the real
> Java and not some knock off implementation.  Weird, isn't it?  They're
> actually in a position to slash and burn a massive segment of the world's
> technology stack.  *Surely* they're not going to pull an OpenSolaris on
> *all* this stuff though.
>
>
> On 11/04/10 08:34, Nathan Evans wrote:
>
>> Me too...
>> we may have to inovate with OpenJDK
>>
>> On 3 November 2010 19:02, Lou Picciano<loupicciano at comcast.net>  wrote:
>>
>>  I"m hoping it's legal, too! We also have big plans for GlassFish on Oi.
>>>
>>>
>>> (Should we be concerned about anything?)
>>>
>>>
>>> Lou Picciano
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Darko Hojnik"<hojnik at virtualizing.org>
>>> To: openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org
>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2010 3:33:58 PM
>>> Subject: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Longterm Support? And Oracle Java legal to
>>> use on OpenIndiana?
>>>
>>> Hello List
>>>
>>> Anybody knows about a LTS (Long Term Support) Distribution with
>>> OSOL/OpenIndiana will be planed?
>>>
>>> At Friday I get new hardware. It's a Tyan two Quadcore Server with 32 GB
>>> memory and 4 x 600 GB SAS Drives in a Raid 10. Planned to deploy until
>>> 2016/2017. I have no trust in Oracle so I wouldn't buy a License.
>>>
>>> And would it be secure to run snv_137 or the latest Kernel with Dom0
>>> support many years? I need two virtualized Boxes, some Zones and a Zone
>>> with PostgreSQL.
>>>
>>> At last. It is legal to install Oracle JDK 1.6 on OpenIndiana? For
>>> Glassfish or Apache Tomcat.
>>>
>>> best regards
>>> Darko Hojnik
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