[Info-vax] Any stronger versions of the LMF planned ?, was: Re: LMF Licence

[John Dallman]

In article <serrmi$1akh$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, chris-nospam at tridac.net (chris)
wrote:

> On 08/09/21 19:04, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> > On 8/9/2021 1:37 PM, chris wrote:
> >> Perhaps so, but desn't change the fact that Oracle have made a 
> >> support only business model a success, Linux or Solaris. A vast
> >> range of s/w from that site, same business.

Oracle are not primarily in the OS business. Nor were Sun. 

Sun were in the hardware business, and became non-viable when commodity
hardware with Linux became far more cost-effective than their own
hardware with Solaris. 

Oracle are in the database software business. The database is free to
evaluate, but /not/ to use for commercial production work.

> Of course, but we are not suggesting that and in any case, Oracle 
> always have, right back to the days of Sun, done all the Solaris 
> development in house, millions of $, but have made money from it 
> none the less.

They seem to have rather lower levels of spending on that these days. 

John