“On Friday, November 2, Oracle will convene its shareholder
meeting. As part of that meeting, this year it’s supposed to
consider an open-source friendly proposal which, for a variety of
reasons, it is asking its shareholders to reject. (See page 55 of
its proxy statement here.)“What is the proposal? That Oracle adopt a resolution that the
company consider the social and environmental impact of using open
source. The underlying intention, I believe, is to nudge Oracle to
take on a more protective approach to open source. Oracle wants the
resolution axed…”