Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Eric Dunbar]

On 18/04/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/06, Cybe R. Wizard <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:51:49 -0400
> > Jonathan Jesse <jjesse at iserv.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Found this interesting post
> > > http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1180607,00.html
> > > about how it would make more sense for Oracle to buy Ubuntu instead
> > > of Novell.
> > >
> > > Jonathan
> > >
> > To me, Linux is Linux.  Being an old hippie, I'm here for the philosophy
> > and, "...humanity toward others.".
> > If Oracle or any other corporate entity is in, I'm out and danged
> > quickly.  /IF/ this happens then, Debian, here I (and others I'm sure)
> > come again.
> >
>
> While I have never had any problem using a distro that his
> commercially owned (insert here a few years of being an user of Red
> Hat/Mandrake before I went to Fedora and finally Ubuntu),
> I'm not clear I would be so inclined to help for free with my personal
> time with a project that his commercially-backed by a large
> corporation. (of course if there is a job offer at the end I would
> consider it :) )
>
> It's easy for a blogger or a news site to start rumours and say that
> it makes sense for Oracle to buy Ubuntu from Canonical, but most of
> the Ubuntu project is not "owned" by Canonical but is owned by its
> community, and as such cannot be sold  in the conventional sense of
> the word.

I for one would like to welcome our new Oracle overlords and condemn
all these naysayers :-) (any Simpsons fans?)

Seriously though, whether or not Oracle buys up Canonical or another
company or spins off their own distro it can only help the evolution
of Linux -- Oracle has a _lot_ of resources and a _lot_ of experience
(and an axe to grind with MS). Plus, their involvement would make
Linux's presence on the DB scene that much bigger.

Either way it'll be a win for Linux.