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submitted 11 months ago by Five@beehaw.org to c/foss@beehaw.org

Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.

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[-] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 64 points 11 months ago

I would trust a wacky waving inflatable tube man at a used Renault car dealer before I would trust Oracle with absolutely anything of any value whatsoever.

[-] milkjug@beehaw.org 7 points 11 months ago

Brutal burn!

[-] wim@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 11 months ago

That is oddly specific put pretty accurate

[-] bl_r@beehaw.org 36 points 11 months ago

While this article has been hilarious, I really wish it was more than just opportunistic talk from a corporation that likely only cares about this because it makes it harder for them to produce oracle linux. I mean, after all, Oracle believes that APIs are proprietary and hates interoperability.

[-] davehtaylor@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah my first thought when seeing the headline was "That's really rich coming from Oracle"

[-] AimFireReady@lemmy.one 3 points 11 months ago

At a glance, I thought it was an article from The Onion.

[-] aes@beehaw.org 18 points 11 months ago

I suppose I'll be watching two pile of snakes pretending to be people for the duration of which this plays out.

[-] AletheCrow@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

That ending is beautiful.

[-] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 9 points 11 months ago

I wish in my dreams for both of these companies to destroy each othr, but alas, it will almost certainly not be so >.<

[-] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 23 points 11 months ago

Red Hat contributes a lot to the Linux kernel and has a history of open-sourcing many of their previously closed-sourced acquisitions.

Oracle bought Sun and then tried to claim that anyone who used the Java API owed them money.

Red Hat is redeemable. What Oracle is trying to do here is like Sauron saying "Hey guys, I really care about ~~open source~~ Middle Earth and want to make things super chill again! Oh, and hey, y'all want some free rings?"

[-] Five@beehaw.org 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Let's be clear, Red Hat is no more. It is now a set of labels and brands on the marionette strings of IBM, the "let's sell jew-counting machines to the Nazis" people.

[-] brainfreeze@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Fucks sake, did they really do that?

[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 10 points 11 months ago

Oh, don't worry. They played for both sides and helped America as well.

And by "helped America", I mean helped facilitate the internment of over a hundred thousand civilians of Japanese descent.

But still, they helped in the war effort, I suppose. Who they helped just depends on your perspective at any given time.

[-] brainfreeze@beehaw.org 5 points 11 months ago

Good lord! I had no idea about all that. I appreciate the info.

[-] Serenus@beehaw.org 8 points 11 months ago

Yeah, IBM supplied a ton of computers to the Nazis during the war, as well as expertise on implementation/usage, from my understanding.

https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html

[-] lemmyatom@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Wow. TIL...

[-] rambaroo@beehaw.org 6 points 11 months ago

Yes they're owned by IBM now.

[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 2 points 11 months ago

Every time a company gets bought it dies, and the buyers start wearing it's skin. We must learn to always look past the skin suit.

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