Oracle Linux Adopters Suffer Backlash 274
atbarboz writes "One of the first converts to Oracle's support for Linux said it has endured a public backlash since its decision to drop Red Hat. 'Melbourne company Opes Prime Stockbroking told ZDNet Australia that in the weeks following its announcement to adopt Oracle Linux, upset Linux enthusiasts phoned, e-mailed and wrote about the company online to complain at the decision. "People called us out of the blue to tell us we were idiots," said Opes executive director Anthony Blumberg.'"
Re:stupid users (Score:3, Interesting)
Linux is an operating system. The kernel is the only and only component of the operating system. Everything else is just a library, application, or memory resident application that runs on top of that kernel. You must be confusing an operating system with an operating environment for users, those are called operating system distributions or just distributions.
The confusion in these terms have been inappropriately spread by Microsoft and Apple who refer to their distributions as operating systems because they do not allow competing distributions based upon their operating systems.
Religion & Rudeness (Score:3, Interesting)
That is where you are wrong.
It appears that the need for religion is hardwired into human beings. If they reject religion, they tend to find a new one. Some believe in global warming. Some in their political party. Some in Linux.
Also, remember that since the 60s we live in a society where rudeness is rewarded.
What the Baby Boomers taught us was that you can be a total jackass and if you claim it is for a good cause it is not only excused but celebrated.
Hardware support? (Score:3, Interesting)
Oracle might think they're onto something here, but I doubt it's going to catch on until they either A) sell their own hardware and support the entire stack from top to bottom, or B) get their OS certified by most or all of the major hardware vendors -- including card manufacturers like QLogic, EMC, Emulex, and Intel, who like the box vendors, only certify to certain OSes.
A True Linux User (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Hang on for a second... (Score:5, Interesting)
Linux is not the problem. Oracle is the problem. But then, Red Hat fanatics are bar none the worst fanboys in my ever-so-humble opinion. Gentoo users are often like rice boys, but they're using the system and I have no beef with them. I'm a Ubuntu user these days, so clearly I have nothing against Ubuntu users (I'm not one of them self-hating types.) But Red Hat users, which I stopped being around 6.1, are clinging desperately to a distribution that doesn't care about them unless they have shitpiles of money. That goes for Fedora, too. ObDisclaimer: This is all my opinion. You may feel differently. If I think you're being a bozo in your reply to this comment, I may flame you. You have been warned.
Oracle is one of the great anti-freedom evils of our time simply because they backed the national ID database. Corporations have no heart - Oracle is willing to get behind such a proposal simply to sell their product.
You are welcome to forget! Everyone else does anyway. But Oracle is bad and wrong and supporting Oracle is therefore bad and wrong.
Re:stupid users (Score:2, Interesting)
Correction Linux is the Linux Operating System's kernel. That's right Linux is a kernel, an operating system, and an operating environment.
Because we're free to use GNU/Free software as long as we stick to the GPL, which lets me call the OS Fred if i want to.
In fact I can create a new operating system, call it something like Penguin OS, use a Linux Kernel and the GNU utilities. Because its mine call whatever I want. And as long as I stick to the terms of the GPL, (And other trademarks regulations), there's nothing RMS (_|_) can do. The correct name for the OS is what ever I call it, because I put it together.
So RMS is free to call his little distro whatever he wants, but neither him nor his lackeys have any business telling the rest of was what to call it.
They weren't even RedHat customers (Score:3, Interesting)
I guess nobody reads the articles anymore, but appearently they weren't even RedHat customers. The ran RHEL but only by way of Dell. It would seem to me that if they wanted the best support maybe they should actually have tried paying RedHat for a frickin support contract. RedHat is a mighty generous company but they're not going to call you up out of the blue and offer you support just for the hell of it.
My personal opinion is that they are going from one bad support situation (DELL) to another (Oracle), but it's their business and they have every right to make dumbass decisions. As for people calling them out of the blue to tell them how retarded they are, I have to call bullshit. I don't think anybody knows or cares who these people are or what distro they run.
Re:Redhat's support is godawful (Score:1, Interesting)
something smells about TFA (Score:4, Interesting)
[*] - http://techp.org/p/1 [techp.org]
Killing the goose that laid the golden egg.. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:stupid users (Score:3, Interesting)
Absolutely right!
How come this is news? Just tell them to fuck off.