On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 07:24:56 Avi Miller wrote:
oracle geeks are probably different, but geeks don't make important decisions in corporates like oracle. suits do.
Actually, the Senior Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Oracle is a massive geek. He hacks on the kernel in his spare time (under a pseudonym) and has code in almost every product he manages. He's also 2-down from Larry and reports directly to our Chief Corporate Architect. So, we don't have a suit in charge of Oracle Linux, we have a geek. Hence, we have no desire to monetise our contributions. Hell, we're the only enterprise Linux that gives away the ISO, the updates, the errata, the bug fixes and the feature development for free.
Say what you will about Oracle as a whole (and I've heard most of it all), but the Oracle Linux/VM product teams and associated upstream mainline developers are not typical of the rest of the organisation at all.
You should probably give a LUV talk about how these things work. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/