Home Messages Index
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index

[News] The New Enemies of Linux

How Red Hat Lost Friends And Gained New Enemies 

,----[ Quote ]
| However, Oracle's plan to offer customers its own bug fixes to
| the Linux kernel is troubling. Instead of waiting for Linux
| kernel maintainer Andrew Morton to collect the latest
| improvements and bug fixes into a formal release for all
| distributions, Oracle could create the equivalent of ap
| roprietary operating system. The history of Unix tells
| us that's a bad idea, as a "forking" of the kernel locks
| customers into whichever variant they'd bought, with
| little incentive to switch even if they found a better
| offering.
`----

http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193700708

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]
Author IndexDate IndexThread Index