Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore [LWN.net]

Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

Posted Oct 20, 2010 12:44 UTC (Wed) by gowen (guest, #23914)
In reply to: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore by jspaleta
Parent article: Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

Thanks for bringing the subject matter back to Shuttleworth and Ubuntu, Jef. Whatever would we do without you?

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Gould: Oracle to Red Hat: It's Not Your Father's Linux Market Anymore

Posted Oct 20, 2010 16:55 UTC (Wed) by jspaleta (subscriber, #50639) [Link]

Firstly, I didn't actually say Ubuntu. I'd appreciate it if you didn't put words in my mouth, I might stub a toe on them later.

Secondly, I made an honest effort to find when other people have made the claim this sort of public posting in the past that painted Red Hat as proprietary. I honestly did not find anything since the mention from 2007 ascribed to the author I cited. I pointed out there year of the quote to show that its not a commonly held idea nor is it novel.

But I can go further back...back to 2004 when Sun's Jonathan Schwartz tried to do the same sort of name-calling. It didn't stick then either.

There is a history of Red Hat competitors (and their supporters or surrogates) attempting to paint Red Hat as proprietary. First with Sun, then with Canonical, now it seems with Oracle. I guess for completeness I should make an effort to find a historical reference from someone from Novell making the claim as well.

-jef