Archive for November, 2006

Oracle must eat Red Hat or fork, says Ubuntu man

Filed under General by Brett Reid at 23:25pm November 15th, 2006

That “Ubuntu man” happens to be our very own Mark Shuttleworth, creator of Ubuntu, a very popular build of Linux.

“I think it’s great that Oracle has entered the Linux market, but the specific tactic they have chosen is going to be very impractical,” Shuttleworth said, in an interview with The Register at Google’s headquarters. “It is really hard to maintain a fork of a binary platform.

Read the full article here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/10/shuttleworth_oracle/