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internetnews.com: Wim Coekaerts, Director of Linux Engineering, Oracle [Interview]

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 21, 2006

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Q: Why isn’t Oracle a member of the OSDL?

“Let’s just say that one part of the OSDL is trying to represent
businesses to the Linux community. I know that a number of the
members aren’t heavily involved in Linux but still are members.

“We basically know where to go. We have a good relationship
directly with people in the Linux community. We have all our
partners. So there is no immediate advantage to being a member for
us…”

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