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Money gone, people gone: Oracle's open-source blowback

Oracle loves open-source projects and technologies – it's just not crazy about other people running them. Now, Oracle has a growing reason to dislike the projects themselves and it's got everything to do with the two things Oracle values most: money and control. Oracle has said that customers are picking the former Sun …

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FAIL

Ok, which is it?

"Oracle had moved to prevent the original GitHub migration by claiming it owned the Hudson name – which it doesn't."

"That left Oracle owning just the Hudson name..."

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WTF?

Do they or don't they?

Which is it?

"Oracle had moved to prevent the original GitHub migration by claiming it owned the Hudson name – which it doesn't.

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That left Oracle owning just the Hudson name "

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Unreliability of Oracle servers ?

Ouch.

This whole story stinks of egomania and power grab. Not Oracle's finest hour.

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Ouch

"Hudson users wanted to move, citing the unreliability of Oracle's servers".

Don't mess with open-source people: they know how to hit a database company where it hurts most.

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