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Re: USENIX Association Upcoming Events (fwd)
"Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a. Frodo" <frodo@sharat.co.il> writes:
>
> On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> >I agree. Linux is not something you charge money for, excepting the media
> >price and packing etc. The concept of 'free operating system' with sources
> So RedHat and Caldera are chaging from $50 to $200 for carton boxes???
Nope. But those are *Linux-oriented* companies. If they were just
companies providing server solutions, I am not sure they'd push Linux
that hard.
> >in the PD is understood very little by most players. The paradigm suits
> >those best, who do not make OSes, but software and hardware.
> That's exaclty my point. If you make hardware that can run with a number
> of OSes, there is no reason to refuse some... Unless you are paid
> **really** big bucks just for refusal. And that would be criminal.
>
Let me give you one example - the Oracle database. There is quite a
pressure from Linux community to make Oracle Corp. port it's database
to Linux. There is no problem with would-be piracy: Oracle is already
available on Linux/FreeBSD through the iBCS support. There are serious
people around which would buy it. But still, there is no Oracle for
Linux!!!
Try asking yourself "qui prodest?" I don't want to guess, but it
really looks like the big OS vendors, like Sun, SCO, HP etc are
pressing Oracle to slow down Linux development.
It's a business and it smells really huge bucks and parties are
interested in cooperation. It has nothing to do with justice.
--
Alexander L. Belikoff
Berger Financial Research Ltd.
abel@bfr.co.il