Comments on: Ellison Continues to Exaggerate http://techrights.org/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:00:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/comment-page-1/#comment-469 Roy Schestowitz Sat, 24 Mar 2007 02:07:52 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/#comment-469 Also worth mentioning is Oracle's new lawsuit, which leads to discussion about hypocrisy. "Oracle sues SAP for allegedly behaving like it has toward Linux" http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/oracle_sues_sap.html A bit off topic, I know, but also in news, Microsoft has shut down Soapbox on new people, arguing that too much copyright infringement is going in its own back yard. Not only did it try to FUD Google based on moral grounds -- something which it cannot brag about. Now it turns out that Soapbox isn't a saint compared to YouTube. Also worth mentioning is Oracle’s new lawsuit, which leads to discussion about hypocrisy.

“Oracle sues SAP for allegedly behaving like it has toward Linux”

http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/03/oracle_sues_sap.html

A bit off topic, I know, but also in news, Microsoft has shut down Soapbox on new people, arguing that too much copyright infringement is going in its own back yard. Not only did it try to FUD Google based on moral grounds — something which it cannot brag about. Now it turns out that Soapbox isn’t a saint compared to YouTube.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/comment-page-1/#comment-468 Roy Schestowitz Fri, 23 Mar 2007 23:20:27 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/#comment-468 That's right. <a href="http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/oracle_red_hat_.html" title="Oracle, Red Hat in Yahoo Linux Scrap" rel="nofollow">Oracle, Red Hat in Yahoo Linux Scrap</a> <blockquote cite="http://blogs.business2.com/beta/2007/03/oracle_red_hat_.html"> Not so, said Yahoo and Red Hat to News.com: Yahoo's using both Red Hat and Oracle. Whatever. Sounds to me like Red Hat and Oracle are fighting over the ultimate booby prize. Yahoo might look like a great customer, on paper, unless you stop to remember that Yahoo mostly uses FreeBSD, an open-source rival to Linux. Winning this business is not going to make Oracle's Linux business any less laughable. </blockquote> That’s right.

Oracle, Red Hat in Yahoo Linux Scrap

Not so, said Yahoo and Red Hat to News.com: Yahoo’s using both Red
Hat and Oracle.

Whatever. Sounds to me like Red Hat and Oracle are fighting over the ultimate booby prize. Yahoo might look like a great customer, on paper, unless you stop to remember that Yahoo mostly uses FreeBSD, an open-source rival to Linux. Winning this business is not going to make Oracle’s Linux business any less laughable.

]]> By: gpl1 http://techrights.org/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/comment-page-1/#comment-467 gpl1 Fri, 23 Mar 2007 20:59:47 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/2007/03/23/ellison-continues-to-exaggerate/#comment-467 I thought Yahoo used FreeBSD? I thought Yahoo used FreeBSD?

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