@meena This is very unfortunate. This move looks and...

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@meena This is very unfortunate. This move looks and feels a lot like what Nvidia does, albeit now with visible source code at least.

Like 12 Nov 2021 at 10:33 | Open on mastodon.ml

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Mina

@drq you don't have to go looking at Nvidia for bad examples of Oracle fucking over a project or an ecosystem and setting it back by (half) a decade

Just look at MySQL, or Java, or Libre / Open Office

Solaris is pretty much dead, and gutted

12 Nov 2021 at 11:41 | Open on cathode.church

Dr. Quadragon ❌

@meena What I mean is holding back the necessary modules that could benefit everyone (including them) in relation to Linux kernel specifically.

MySQL is greatly inferrior to MariaDB nowadays, OpenOffice is dead compared to Libreoffice (although LO still sucks, IMO, we need a completely new office suite which is not a fork of ancient StarOffice codebase). And Java is, well... it's Java.

12 Nov 2021 at 11:46 | Open on mastodon.ml

Mina

@drq i don't mean that one is better than the other, what i mean is: Look at the mess, and how long it took for the community to heal

12 Nov 2021 at 11:59 | Open on cathode.church

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