[BlueOnyx:24608] Re: End of life of Centos 8?
Michael Stauber
mstauber at blueonyx.it
Sun Dec 13 03:13:45 -05 2020
Hi Ernie,
> Funny thing, is, Oracle were the ones that released the Cobalt source
> code into the public domain, when they bought out Sun, and decided to
> abandon the Cobalt products. Without Oracle we wouldn't have BlueOnyx.
Sorry, but that isn't correct:
On December 23, 2003, Sun released the RAQ550/Sausalito Source code
under the BSD license.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt_RaQ
Oracle acquired Sun Microsystems in 2010:
https://www.oracle.com/sun/
Oracle is sort of a reverse Midas. Whatever they touch turns to shit. :p
See:
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/2e2c1o/what_do_we_hate_oracle_for/
--
With best regards
Michael Stauber
More information about the Blueonyx
mailing list