[kwlug-disc] Newbie... Playing with Linux etc...

Sat Apr 17 08:40:57 EDT 2010

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Chris Bruner <cbruner at quadro.net> wrote:
> A slashdot article is saying that /Now Oracle wants the community to prove
> that open source can be made profitable
> <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2010-April/007767.html>.
> http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/04/16/190256/Oracle-Wants-Proof-That-Open-Source-Is-Profitable
>
> /I think this goes right back to the basic problem of different
> objectives/monitary systems.

That Oracle is even asking that seems odd to me because, as a company, they
are one of the top ten contributors to the Linux Kernel! See
http://www.remword.com/kps_result/all_sof.html