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Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To
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this post was submitted on 10 Jul 2023
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I was actually kind of hoping for the second option, if only so that it would be Oracle footing the legal bill to establish a precedent. That Oracle didn't choose this option may indicate that Red Hat's coercive license wrapper ("if you exercise your open source rights to redistribute, we'll close your account") is actually an effective and legal end-run around open source licenses. I don't want that to be the case.
Yeah the historical precedents were all Oracle giving Red Hat the finger and Red Hat going "sure, we won't go after you" because... well... would you wanna get into a lawsuit war with Oracle? They look at the legal system as a revenue stream.
I totally wouldn't/do not expect an Oracle fork. I expected they'd just continue on as always. That's probably also bad news for Red Hat tbh.