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		rbanffy on Feb 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle "sanitizes" Hudson's creator from wiki > Well eventually the same thing that happened to SCO ;-) Oracle has some very good products. SCO had a Unix nobody wanted anymore (at least, nobody with two or more neurons).

rdtsc on Feb 7, 2011 [–]

For a while they had a Unix some wanted and nobody thought at the time that there will be a free better Unix variant one day. Then GNU/Linux came along...

j_baker on Feb 7, 2011 | | [–]

Yeah, but Oracle's GNU/Linux came a long time ago in the form of MySQL and Postgres.

rbanffy on Feb 7, 2011 | | [–]

> For a while they had a Unix some wanted

True. I wanted it.

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