[OpenIndiana-discuss] Java 7

[Alan Coopersmith]

On 08/02/11 11:49, Apostolos Syropoulos wrote:
>> Yes, it is a nice licensing model, because Oracle is a business, not a charity, 
>> and it's first duty is to it's shareholders. Red Hat, IBM, Microsoft, 
> 
> You cannot compare RH with Oracle and Microsoft. RH is selling support for
> an OpenSource OS while Oracle and Microsoft have donated to the Open Source
> community almost nothing. RH had produced and donated pieces of software,
> but Oracle and Microsoft have done quite the opposite.

http://lwn.net/Articles/451243/ - top employers of contributors to the Linux 3.0
release cycle, by changeset includes both Microsoft (support for running Linux
as a guest in Microsoft HyperV) and Oracle (btrfs & general kernel tuning).

http://oss.oracle.com/ - Oracle's contributions to Linux & other open source
products.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTE1MQ

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	-Alan Coopersmith-        alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
	 Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System