Good question

Posted Oct 27, 2006 18:10 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (guest, #15091)
In reply to: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch) by ajross
Parent article: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

I think that the easiest answer lies in forgetting the origin of the code. The way of being a good citizen in a Free Software ecosystem starts with contributing code, hiring developers contributing and funding the projects where you feed. Some companies go the extra mile and directly start new projects in promising directions, cooperate with others for a common goal or in general support development and developers.

If Oracle does all that, then ethically they will be in good standing; regardless of where their code comes from. Of course, if all of their code comes from Red Hat then they cannot be a good citizen.