It's not just that it sounds bad, you'd have to be willing to sell your soul to ...

yjftsjthsd-h · on Jan 20, 2021

As I remarked to a RH employee when the CentOS 8 discontinuation came out - do you have any idea how much trust you have to burn that people are considering Oracle as the good option?

smnrchrds · on Jan 20, 2021

RH would have minded. IBM doesn't. They may even take being compared to Oracle as a compliment.

rescbr · on Jan 20, 2021

I have heard my share of "at least we aren't Oracle" while I was at IBM :)

smnrchrds · on Jan 20, 2021

That reminds me of Animal Farm.

thu2111 · on Jan 21, 2021

What's the specific difference between Oracle and IBM/RedHat in this regard? As far as I can tell Oracle has burned a lot of people because they don't do license checks in their software (no DRM of any kind), which is usually what the HN crowd wants. But the flip side is they have to check you in some other way, leading to audits, and audits are very painful.

Is the difference that RHEL does subscription checks so they don't need to audit customers so much?

In terms of open source contributions, RH certainly do more, but Oracle are no slouch. They're doing actually exciting stuff with GraalVM and I don't really remember the last time I saw Red Hat do anything describable as research, their Java stewardship has been pretty responsible, they publish quite a lot of useful tools and stuff.