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Originally posted by wargames View PostI really hope Oracle does not follow the same path with Virtualbox, which is one of my top applications.
I already have used Boxes 3.6, but replaced it with VirtualBox again, because the file transfer between guest and host was a bit tricky. So in Gnome 3.8 I will switch again, I guess.
(new features in Boxes 3.8: http://zee-nix.blogspot.de/2013/03/w...-boxes-38.html)
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Originally posted by Fenrin View PostBoxes is on a good way to be soon a decent alternative to Oracles VirtualBox OSE. The best feature which comes/came to Boxes 3.8 is the USB redirection IMHO.
I already have used Boxes 3.6, but replaced it with VirtualBox again, because the file transfer between guest and host was a bit tricky. So in Gnome 3.8 I will switch again, I guess.
(new features in Boxes 3.8: http://zee-nix.blogspot.de/2013/03/w...-boxes-38.html)
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Every month I wonder why Oracle ever bought out Sun. They gained Solaris and let that crumble into nothing. They gained Java and made it unappealing to use. They gained Virtualbox and the only feature gains it gets are experimental. They gained OpenOffice and maintained it so poorly LibreOffice became a necessary project. They gained SPARC and AFAIK that's collecting cobwebs. And now this? I'm sure I missed something else but really Oracle - why did you buy Sun? Oracle is seriously causing damage to the open source world.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostEvery month I wonder why Oracle ever bought out Sun. They gained Solaris and let that crumble into nothing. They gained Java and made it unappealing to use. They gained Virtualbox and the only feature gains it gets are experimental. They gained OpenOffice and maintained it so poorly LibreOffice became a necessary project. They gained SPARC and AFAIK that's collecting cobwebs. And now this? I'm sure I missed something else but really Oracle - why did you buy Sun? Oracle is seriously causing damage to the open source world.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostEvery month I wonder why Oracle ever bought out Sun. They gained Solaris and let that crumble into nothing. They gained Java and made it unappealing to use. They gained Virtualbox and the only feature gains it gets are experimental. They gained OpenOffice and maintained it so poorly LibreOffice became a necessary project. They gained SPARC and AFAIK that's collecting cobwebs. And now this? I'm sure I missed something else but really Oracle - why did you buy Sun? Oracle is seriously causing damage to the open source world.
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Originally posted by Tiger_Coder View PostPatents. Sun got a lot of them and Oracle got a low of lawyer to sue everyone with patents.
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Originally posted by schmidtbag View PostEvery month I wonder why Oracle ever bought out Sun. They gained Solaris and let that crumble into nothing. They gained Java and made it unappealing to use. They gained Virtualbox and the only feature gains it gets are experimental. They gained OpenOffice and maintained it so poorly LibreOffice became a necessary project. They gained SPARC and AFAIK that's collecting cobwebs. And now this? I'm sure I missed something else but really Oracle - why did you buy Sun? Oracle is seriously causing damage to the open source world.
Secondary, from what I gathered back then, was the hardware division. I haven't been keeping up with what's going on there, but I recall reading about how the SPARC relationship with Fujitsu appeared to be falling apart, and that had me raising eyebrows. But, then again, Oracle's got a reputation for aggressive decision-making, so I guess it shouldn't be too surprising.
I never saw any analysis of how valuable Sun's patent portfolio was to Oracle, but I have to agree that that must surely have been a major driver as well. I mean, shit, just think of how much stuff is out there that started as a Sun project.
So them's the big three, as I see it. As for everything else, well...
Stuff like OO.o, Solaris, ZFS and MySQL was probably just icing to them. I can't imagine Oracle being interested in any of those in a stand-alone purchase, even at a bargain price. Keep in mind that with the later three in that four that I mention, Oracle already had competing products available or in development (Unbreakable Linux, Btrfs, and their existing plethora of database technologies).
So, in short, the Sun stuff that interests us most is the Sun stuff that probably interested Oracle the least.
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bdw
Slackware current also replaced mysql with mariadb on the 23'rd of march
theres also an explanation
ftp://ftp.slackware.org.uk/slackware.../ChangeLog.txt
"The poll on LQ showed a large
majority of our users were in favor of the change. It's my belief that
the MariaDB Foundation will do a better job with the code, be more
responsive to security concerns, and be more willing to work with the
open source community. And while I don't think there is currently any
issue with MySQL's licensing of the community edition for commercial uses,
several threads on LQ showed that there is confusion about this, whereas
with MariaDB the freedom to use the software is quite clear."
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