That Which Does Not Kill Us...
I was once offered to write a small book about Nietzsche. I declined, opting instead to accept another writing assignment about Plato. My reasons were purely personal; Nietzsche depresses me. I don't refute his works, per se. I just tend to avoid them. But there is one quotation that is attributed to him that I think is perfect for this week's news: "That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
I'm sure that phrase is running around Red Hat headquarters today. There is some truth to this aphorism, and it needs to be remembered in the days ahead. I think we are in for interesting times ahead. Like the Chinese curse "may you live in interesting times" kind of interesting.
I know a number of people, including some of my colleagues in the open source community, were really angered by the audacity of Oracle when CEO Larry Ellison announced that his company would "fully support" Linux. His definition of support: take the purely open source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, strip anything copyrighted from it (like nomenclature, icons, etc.), and release it as part of Oracle's stack. RHEL becomes Unbreakable Linux.
I have to admit, my first reaction was a bit sardonic: it's no secret that Red Hat has ticked off many partners and customers with what can only be described as their arrogance.
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