From: telcontar@duck.com   
      
   On 08.09.2022 at 14:26, mechanic scribbled:   
      
   > On Wed, 7 Sep 2022 18:03:42 +0300, Henry Crun wrote:   
   >    
   > > Upgraded focal to jammy ran sudo apt update and sudo upgrade - 87   
   > > items updated/upgraded/installed during upgrade saw "Oracle"   
   > > flashing by on several item names kernel name is now   
   > > "5.15.0-1017-oracle" I have not nor have I ever had any use for   
   > > Oracle. Any explanation would be gratefully accepted.    
   >    
   > What's the problem with Oracle? It's all open source, right?   
      
   Yes, but Oracle is a company name, and I guess it makes some people   
   freak out.     
      
   Linux and GNU are perceived as "democratic" names — they belong   
   to "the community" — and so when people see the name of a (very big,    
   powerful and not very loved or trusted) corporation fly by, they may   
   assume that they're now running something that's controlled and/or   
   owned by said company, as opposed to by the community.   
      
   It's all about perception.  People often forget that btrfs is being   
   developed and maintained by Oracle, and that this was already the case   
   before Oracle bought Sun Microsystems and obtained ownership of the zfs   
   code base.     
      
   (zfs is Free Software, but its CDDL license is considered incompatible   
   with the GPL because it allows for proprietarization.  Having one and   
   the same company develop both btrfs and zfs, with both of those   
   filesystems being very similar in features, gave some people the idea   
   that btrfs would have been phased out and replaced by a possibly   
   GPL-licensed version of the older and — at that time — more mature zfs,   
   but Oracle had other plans, and what they did to MySQL and OpenSolaris   
   did not exactly instill confidence in the company among the FLOSS   
   community.)   
      
   --    
   With respect,   
   = Aragorn =   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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