Re: Oracle doesn't permit downloading even critical patches without contract? WTF!

>> Do we have any reason to think that Oracle considers Sun anything
>> more than something to be squeezed for every immedate-term dollar it
>> will yield and then the remaining dessicated husk tossed aside?
> My department at work has been a long-time Sun customer, and now we
> deal with Oracle, including receiving NDA briefings.  I'll let
> suffice a remark that the above is not at all the conclusion I would
> draw.

That sounds like a "yes".

Which sounds superficially encouraging, but, when combined with the
lack of a "yes" from anyone not as on-the-inside as you are, it's
almost more disturbing.  (And you may quote me on that, though I doubt
there's any point; Oracle has amply demonstrated they don't consider
the open community that grew up around Sun worth even throwing token
sops to.)

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