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

[ Thanks to Tom Adelstein
for this link. ]

“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…”

Complete
Story

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