Linux Magazine: Linux’s Proprietary Booster

“In 1998, Oracle gave open source software a huge credibility
boost by being one of the first companies to invest in
then-fledgling Linux distributor Red Hat Software. Company CEO
Larry Ellison has always maintained that Linux represents Oracle’s
best shot to dominate the commodity Intel hardware platform, but
ask him about MySQL and you’ll be lucky to get a curt
dismissal.

“Oracle may love Linux, and its recently announced cluster file
system may be GPL’d, but Ellison’s company is–first and
foremost–all about closed source…”

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