Oracle retains open source dictatorship

theregister.co.uk

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Over the past year, Oracle's strategy for running open-source projects created by Sun has become clear. It's determined to retain control of names and roadmaps. And in an effort to justify this stance, it inevitably cites the wellbeing of Oracle customers and Oracle shareholders.

I'm not sure if this is truly Oracle's strategy or not, but if it is, it certainly seems to be a poor one. Whatever control they retain will come at the cost of alienating a huge majority of the developers to the project core and plugins whose paychecks are not signed by Oracle.

The only development like to continue in their version of "Hudson" will be that which Oracle or it's partners directly sponsor.

Retain the name but lose the people that actually make the project seems like a poor strategy.

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