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

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

Hmm, that propaganda dig struck a nerve.

Someone else might be impressed with the quod libetic verbiage expended in your rebuttal.

You narrowly framed the issue in politico-economic terms, and ignored the political significance of kernel.org.

Public land is no less public despite having a licensed brand name concession stand on it.

Your screed tacitly assumes that Linux belongs primarily to Red Hat and Oracle when, if fact, their putative appropriation of Linux is little different from that by Montevista or Timesys or any other specialized release, since they ALL start from a distribution got from kernel.org.

Is any kernel.org release considered proprietary? Or commercial?
Only by sophistic acrobatics.

RHEL and the maintenance thereof is a private service based on a public resource. While it may be narrowly technically correct to call some aspect of RHEL proprietary, it is neither generally nor usefully correct.

Calling a tail a leg does not make it into one.

Therefore, I see your authorial excesses as propaganda when not simply inflammatory. I stipulate that you may not be in Oracle's pocket, Mr. Gould, but it is evidently in your financial interest to write the overstated and alarmist material that you do.