Red Hat exec says Oracle is not an open source company

[David Gerard]

On 27 May 2010 15:05, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
<christopher.chan at bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:
>> On 27 May 2010 14:05, Gilles Gravier <ggravier at fsfe.org> wrote:

>>> Red Hat says "Sun sometimes held back "the good stuff" from the open
>>> source community in developing MySQL"... Hum...
>>> So Red Hat isn't doing that with Red Hat Enterprise Linux vs Fedora?

>> Nope. Unless you consider trademarked logos are all that.

> You have no idea how much withholding trademarks is impeding free
> software. I don't care how much testing Redhat puts into testing their
> RHEL releases, how much they ensure that the whole stack works together,
> or even how they make the source rpms available to anybody and not just
> their customers/subscribers, withholding those trademarks is holding
> back good stuff. Period.


How? In what way are the logo graphics good stuff? Please show your
working, rather than mere assertion.

In industry practice, the difference between using CentOS and Red Hat
is whether you're running Oracle or other third-party proprietary
software that demands a "supported" system.


- d.