[ Thanks to Jim
Lynch for this link. ]
“Well it finally happened, as we all knew it would.
Oracle bought Sun and promptly pissed off a lot of people with its
heavy-handed ways. Anybody who has followed Oracle’s past antics
shouldn’t be surprised by its behavior since acquiring OpenOffice,
nor the reaction from the open source community which can be simply
summed up as follows:“Fork You, Oracle!
“Yep, that’s about what’s coming to at this point. But before I
get into how Oracle is going to be forked over by the open source
community, let’s talk about why Oracle matters in the first
place.“Why Oracle Matters
“The open source community is understandably upset about Oracle
taking over two products that are very important to desktop
Linux:“OpenOffice.org
VirtualBox”