Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 00:09:19 +0100
Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2006-04-18 at 17:42 -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I don't get this: corporations such as Canonical (currently supporting
> ubuntu), Novell and Red Hat have and continue to revolutionise linux
> in the world computing market. Are you _sure_ you don't like corporate
> entities?
> 
> Matt

It's nice that Canonical can make some money from supporting Ubuntu,
it's nice that some few corporations give back to the community through
employing open source developers, but by and large I am against any
business having an identity of its own in the eyes of the government.
It removes the officers of the corporate entity from a certain level of
responsibility for their actions. Although I do contribute financially
to several open source projects I do not pay for Linux and won't
support a corporate Linux whether RH, Mandriva, Linspire, or any others
of which I am unaware.  I did support and use Libranet for a while
because I liked the 'small developer makes good' feel.  Ubuntu
displaced that with its philosophy more than anything but there is
always Debian waiting in the wings if Mark or Ubuntu as a whole goes
belly-up.  Although Ubuntu has my respect and my admiration (and my
(several) hard drives) it can never have my loyalty for the simple fact
that the rules can change at a moment's notice.

Cybe R. Wizard
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