Saturday, October 2

Oracle Loses its Lustre

There is more evidence that Oracle is not to be trusted with being in charge of an Open Source project: Oracle plans to stop distributing on of the main filing systems used for supercomputers, except as part of a commercial Oracle product.

Fortunately, there is a new startup supporting the continued development of Lustre for supercomputers in keeping with the established principles of Open Source,

The actions of Oracle may be legal, but certainly not ethical, nor a positive effect on their Good Will amongst the Open Source community of users and developers

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