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Finally, to IBM, here’s a big idea for you. You say that you don’t want to pay all those RHEL developers? Here’s how you can save money: just pull from us. Become a downstream distributor of Oracle Linux. We will happily take on the burden.
- I would trust a wacky waving inflatable tube man at a used Renault car dealer before I would trust Oracle with absolutely anything of any value whatsoever. - Brutal burn! 
- That is oddly specific put pretty accurate 
 
- While this article has been hilarious, I really wish it was more than just opportunistic talk from a corporation that likely only cares about this because it makes it harder for them to produce oracle linux. I mean, after all, Oracle believes that APIs are proprietary and hates interoperability. - Yeah my first thought when seeing the headline was “That’s really rich coming from Oracle” - At a glance, I thought it was an article from The Onion. 
 
 
- I suppose I’ll be watching two pile of snakes pretending to be people for the duration of which this plays out. 
- I wish in my dreams for both of these companies to destroy each othr, but alas, it will almost certainly not be so >.< - Red Hat contributes a lot to the Linux kernel and has a history of open-sourcing many of their previously closed-sourced acquisitions. - Oracle bought Sun and then tried to claim that anyone who used the Java API owed them money. - Red Hat is redeemable. What Oracle is trying to do here is like Sauron saying “Hey guys, I really care about - open sourceMiddle Earth and want to make things super chill again! Oh, and hey, y’all want some free rings?”- Let’s be clear, Red Hat is no more. It is now a set of labels and brands on the marionette strings of IBM, the “let’s sell jew-counting machines to the Nazis” people. - Fucks sake, did they really do that? - Oh, don’t worry. They played for both sides and helped America as well. - And by “helped America”, I mean helped facilitate the internment of over a hundred thousand civilians of Japanese descent. - But still, they helped in the war effort, I suppose. Who they helped just depends on your perspective at any given time. - Good lord! I had no idea about all that. I appreciate the info. 
 
- Yeah, IBM supplied a ton of computers to the Nazis during the war, as well as expertise on implementation/usage, from my understanding. - https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/black-ibm.html - Wow. TIL… 
 
- Yes they’re owned by IBM now. 
 
- Every time a company gets bought it dies, and the buyers start wearing it’s skin. We must learn to always look past the skin suit. 
 
 
 
- That ending is beautiful. 







