LXer: Scary Scenario: Oracle Leveraged into Dominant OSS Position with Sendmail, Apache, Linux

Feb 17, 2006, 00:15 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Tom Adelstein)

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"Major media and the public seem to have missed one of the biggest plays in the history of Linux and the Open Source Software community with Oracle's purchase of SleepCat software.

"Who would have imagined such a strategic move? If Microsoft had thought of this, we'd be starting over from scratch on a new OS. They would own the Internet..."

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