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<p>On 6/28/23 5:45 PM, Ryan Novosielski wrote:<br>
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<div>On Jun 28, 2023, at 17:25, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf
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On 26/6/23 11:38, Joe Landman wrote:<br>
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folks like Oracle who are making money off of rebuilds
and not so much at Alma/Rocky. Those are collateral
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From memory (insert sirens, klaxons and other warnings
sounds here) Oracle was the target for Red Hat's
obfuscating of their kernel sources to make it harder for
them to do their kernel variants.<br>
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It would horribly ironic if this move pushed more people
towards using OL given Oracle seem to give that away for
free. :-/<br>
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!important;">This could the point where the OL forks from
RHEL even moreso. Considering that many corporations are
already spending $$$ for Oracle, and Oracle has the
resources to do the same dev work that they were "letting"
RH do, I think Oracle could certainly challenge RHEL for
corporate dominance if they wanted to. Of course, none of
that affects us since most of us are using the free
rebuilds, but it would be funny to watch from the
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<div>Oracle is the one organization that I can think of that has
been worse than the recent track record of whatever has been
going on at IBM/RedHat. They basically priced themselves
completely out of academia vis-a-vis all of the former Sun
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<p>I'm in no position to dispute that - I've never had to pay for
Oracle products, and haven't dealt with any Sun systems since
around 2000. They have been giving away Oracle Unbreakable Linux
and VirtualBox completely free for years now, and while I haven't
tested all the desktop virtualization solutions available, I've
found VirtualBox to be far superior to VMware workstation for my
current situation of needed to run Linux guests on Windows host
(please don't ask!) <br>
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<p>I highly doubt Oracle would ever do what I proposed, but I think
they have the resource to do it. Of course, since they'd have to
spend more work to maintain their Linux distro, they may decide
they need to make money to support that larger effort, completing
the circle. ;) <br>
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<p>--<br>
Prentice<br>
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