Naturally, Linux_Victim has the clearest perspective on this … unless you’re an idiot.
Microsoft is a corporation, and is therefore evil. In fact, it’s a convicted monopolist. Oh, the evil!
Oracle has enthusiastically adopted open software over the last ten years, including Java. It’s corporate, but it wasn’t evil. Not until it transgressed the Unwritten Law (soon to be GPLv5, in movie theaters near you, but not in 3-D, and certainly not with DRM attached). Because of that, Oracle is Evil. Oh, and corporate.
IBM used to be evil, but now it’s a force for Good. Why? Because it sells a hell of a lot of hardware based on Linux. I mean, it’s corporate, but it’s GNU/Linux/Loon compliant corporate. How could that possibly be evil?
Red Hat is a corporation, but its very existence depends upon Linux. So, not evil, then. It even contributes massive amounts back to upstream — saintly! Of course, in so doing, it takes away 99% of the “support” market that RMS claims is the way to make money out of FOSS. But never mind — that’s not evil. It’s just capitalism. In a good and saintly way.
Google is … you know what, I’m getting tired of this futile, obsessive, lunatic categorisation. See the tech press ad nauseam for further updates.
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“ and certainly not with DRM attached “
Sure, but it IS going to have a creative commons license attached, and if you deviate from what said creative commons license says even the slightest bit, the entire loon army will be on you. Also, all those tech sites that are telling the RIAA to chill out and ease it with the lawsuits (arstechnica, slashdot etc) wil suddenly start to ask for your head on a plate and pressure for maximum law enforcement for your case.
Seen it happening before with GPL, wasn’t pretty.
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