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On 17/12/11 11:03, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Neil Winchurst wrote: > >> What on earth is going on with Sun and Oracle nowadays? > > Oracle bought Sun, so there is no more Sun... > > As I see it: > > Sun: Nice belevolent Californian company, some good IPR which they > didn't really want to capitalise on. As well as hardware/chip designs, > Sun "products" included Open Office, Java and MySQL... > > Oracle: Mean, money grabbing global corprat company wanting to stich as > many peole up as possible, introducing silly lock-ins, enforcing (or > trying to) patents they bought off Sun, etc. for no reason other than to > extract money money money out of (e.g.) Google and so on. > > Hence FOSS forks of Open Office (LibreOffice), MySQL (MariaDB)... > > Gordon > So, keep away from Oracle. Fair enough. Apropos my original question, now that I have replaced the sun versions as recommended, I see that the sun versions are still showing in synaptic as installed. Would it be a sensible idea to remove them or just ignore them? Neil -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq