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| Oracle: If RHEL were free, we wouldn't compete |
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| Publication: | CNET | Date: | Mar 12 2009 |
In the midst of an otherwise insightful analysis of Oracle's contributions to the Linux kernel (spoiler: they're significant), Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's vice president of Linux engineering, makes this baffling statement: "We're offering (Oracle Unbreakable Linux) only because Red Hat requires customers to pay for binary downloads of (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). If RHEL was free, we would have never done (Oracle Unbreakable Linux)."
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