[TriLUG] Oracle Tells The White House: Stop Hiring Silicon Valley People & Ditch Open Source | Techdirt

Thu Oct 5 12:40:11 EDT 2017

I've never been able to figure out if Open Source is king of "Good
Enough" or king of "That's not good enough, let's fix it".  They seem
diametrically opposed but at it's core: you must have both.

I do think the administration would do well to hire more humanities
folks and I am astonished at how undervalued they have been lately WRT
tech.  Even in Open Source, you need both.

sean

On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 11:16 AM, William Sutton via TriLUG
<trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> I think the bigger problem Oracle is refusing to face is their insistence on
> jacking up their already stratospheric prices.  Businesses that were using
> Oracle because it was the best technical solution found they couldn't
> justify the cost and went second best to SQL Server.
>
> William Sutton (from his ring-side seat in such a business)
>
>
> On Thu, 5 Oct 2017, John Vaughters via TriLUG wrote:
>
>> The cat is out of the bag, no amount of whining and crying is going to
>> change the uproar of software development caused by open source. Just ask
>> Pandora about her open box.
>> John V.
>>
>>    On Thursday, October 5, 2017, 10:15:38 AM EDT, Wes Garrison via TriLUG
>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>> I reckon I am.
>>
>> _________________________________
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>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 10:10 AM, Mauricio Tavares <raubvogel at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:46 AM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG
>>> <trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
>>> > Oracle, the company that bought Sun so they could sue Google for
>>> copyright
>>> > infringement?
>>> >
>>> > The company that claims that the open-source Java API is copyrighted,
>>> > and
>>> > copying the API headers to use the API amounts to copyright
>>> > infringement?
>>> >
>>> > That Oracle?
>>> >
>>>       Are you calling Oracle the New SCO?
>>>
>>> > There is a reason Debian is moving from MySQL to MariaDB
>>> > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MariaDB>.
>>> >
>>> > Oracle is a drain on the American economy.
>>> >
>>> > _________________________________
>>> > Wesley S. Garrison
>>> > Network Engineer
>>> > Xitech Communications, Inc.
>>> > phone:  (919) 260-0803
>>> > fax:      (919) 932-5051
>>> > __________________________________
>>> > "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from email."
>>> >
>>> > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:28 AM, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG <
>>> trilug at trilug.org>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Just sharing a nice article here..
>>> >>
>>> >> https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170930/00522238319/
>>> >> oracle-tells-white-house-stop-hiring-silicon-valley-people-
>>> >> ditch-open-source.shtml
>>> >>
>>> >> Jeremy Davis
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