I also did not expect the fork. I thought they would slime their way forward and use Oracle’s army of lawyers against IBM.
But now I expect new RHEL releases to become unsupported in the next database LTS release, 23c. All the customers on RHEL will probably migrate to Oracle Linux on their next upgrade, even if Red Hat support is better you don’t want to be unsupported on critical systems because you’ll have no one to blame when the shit hits the fan.
I was actually kind of hoping for the second option, if only so that it would be Oracle footing the legal bill to establish a precedent. That Oracle didn’t choose this option may indicate that Red Hat’s coercive license wrapper (“if you exercise your open source rights to redistribute, we’ll close your account”) is actually an effective and legal end-run around open source licenses. I don’t want that to be the case.
Yeah the historical precedents were all Oracle giving Red Hat the finger and Red Hat going “sure, we won’t go after you” because… well… would you wanna get into a lawsuit war with Oracle? They look at the legal system as a revenue stream.
I totally wouldn’t/do not expect an Oracle fork. I expected they’d just continue on as always. That’s probably also bad news for Red Hat tbh.
I also did not expect the fork. I thought they would slime their way forward and use Oracle’s army of lawyers against IBM.
But now I expect new RHEL releases to become unsupported in the next database LTS release, 23c. All the customers on RHEL will probably migrate to Oracle Linux on their next upgrade, even if Red Hat support is better you don’t want to be unsupported on critical systems because you’ll have no one to blame when the shit hits the fan.
I was actually kind of hoping for the second option, if only so that it would be Oracle footing the legal bill to establish a precedent. That Oracle didn’t choose this option may indicate that Red Hat’s coercive license wrapper (“if you exercise your open source rights to redistribute, we’ll close your account”) is actually an effective and legal end-run around open source licenses. I don’t want that to be the case.
Yeah the historical precedents were all Oracle giving Red Hat the finger and Red Hat going “sure, we won’t go after you” because… well… would you wanna get into a lawsuit war with Oracle? They look at the legal system as a revenue stream.
I totally wouldn’t/do not expect an Oracle fork. I expected they’d just continue on as always. That’s probably also bad news for Red Hat tbh.