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Old 10-02-2012, 02:01 PM   #1
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LXer: The Fox in the FOSS Henhouse


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Oracle's proprietary posture may have soiled the welcome mat and vilified its good standing in the FOSS community as CEO Larry Ellison pushes the balance point between servicing his customers and nickel-and-diming them to turn a higher profit. Clearly, since Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems -- and with it OpenOffice and Java -- the company has not acted very neighborly with open source developers.

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Linus Torvalds' intent for free and affordable software
What?

I thought Linus was one of those "free as in speech not as in beer" people?

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