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Is Oracle poised to effectively end open source software?

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I don't think software should ever have been patented in the first place. Maybe copyrighted but that seems to have its own problems as well.

I would tend to agree with you. Although certain interactions between hardware and software may be patentable -- the fundamental activities of software should not.

Lets take, for instance, Linux. By defying the norm of a traditional, purchased operating system -- Linus Torvalds created community initiative. Not to mention, it now offers extreme stability in both personal and business environments -- although the mainstream public may be less aware or able to use it in all its forms.

Oracle is so wildly steeped in its tradition of becoming a patent-hungry software giant, it tends to shelter growth. I was disappointed to say the least, when MySQL was acquired by Sun Microsystems; but outright dismayed when Oracle acquired Sun.

We may be willing to pay a premium for service -- or for that matter provisioned service; but in this era, we are no longer willing to pay for commercial software. We participate in massive online communities because we want to be heard -- our feedback drives INNOVATION.

Better yet, innovation was best driven by open initiatives, like Java. Although the technology of Java is less pertinent to the consumer desktop today, its principles allowed virtually anyone to learn how to write programs, while maintaining a secure, trusted platform that could run in almost any computing environment.

By letting companies like Oracle (and--cough--ADOBE---cough) scoop up all the innovative thinking and put it behind a locked door; we subject ourselves to their whim.

I'm actually quite surprised there wasn't a larger backlash when Sun was acquired; but we'll see what Oracle chooses to do with it, as well.

It's interesting that when the shoe is on the other foot, Oracle will settle lawsuits.

Netapp for a long time has contended Sun's open-source ZFS filesystems violated their patents. When Oracle acquired Sun, they transferred their lawsuit to Oracle. Just recently, the two parties have settled, though terms were not made public.

It appears Oracle can dish it out, but can't take it.

I think people are making the wrong comments.

If you have no paying customers, you end up bleeding money like Sun was doing prior to Oracle's acquisition.

Oracle is no longer funding open source development directly. They are funding development services by paying customers.

There are many that want everything free and open but only gloss over the need to pay peoples bills to allow the open development to thrive.

However, the source is out so they can not take that away.

Yes, I have been predicting this ever since Oracle purchased Sun in a life saving (for Oracle) takeover. Since Oracle's flagship products are Java based,I believed it was only a matter of time before Oracle decided to take over sun.
Oracle has long since had a shark like approach to things, buying out companies it cant compete with in order to try and gain and firmer footing vs Microsoft. Its been more than 3 years since the last Java version (J2se 6) was released in 2007 and I think it will not be followed up by anything more than the current beta of 1.7 since Oracle are looking to cut costs and manpower (from Sun).
They only made all these gimmicks to bring the loss making Sun Microsystems back into the green. But, yes I must also suggest to all my Java loving brethren out there that it is always better to look for greener pastures as Java pretty much wont be allowed to remain anything more than the development platform for the Oracle Database.