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Oracle Attacks Open Source; Says Community-Developed Code Is Inferior
sfcrazy writes "Oracle has a love-hate relationship with open source technologies. In a whitepaper (PDF) for the Deparment of Defense, Oracle claims that TCO (total cost of ownership) goes up with the use of open source. They're essentially trying to build a case for the use of their own products within the government. 'The skill required to successfully and economically blend source code into a commercially viable product is relatively scarce. It should not be done directly at government expense.' Oracle also attacks the community-based development model, calling it more insecure than company developed products. 'Government-sponsored community development approaches to software creation lack the financial incentives of commercial companies to produce low-defect, well-documented code.'"
Wasnt the kernel of their unbreakable linux open source as well?
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
You should try opening you're eyes more than once a day. :P
Quality has dropped sharply since then.
That is the most insulting demonstration of hubris from Oracle I have seen in a very long time.
So, you didn't watch or read about the America's Cup this year? :-)
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
Rule #1 of OS documentation: there will be excellent documentation except for the project that you really need.
Hubris from Oracle only?
Well, hubris alone gets you only Java, which many Unix people don't like. But if you add impatience and laziness to the mix, you get Perl, and then we're getting somewhere.
Ezekiel 23:20
The GUIs don't have this problem so much as the menus are categorized and they usually have a "what this does" kind of field with them.
Don't worry. The GNOME folks are working hard on that problem.
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."