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Oracle, a CPTN member along with Microsoft and Apple, turned into a GNU/Linux enemy around 2010 when it abandoned a lot of FOSS projects acquired from Sun and then sued Google over Android. Here are some selected posts about Oracle.

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Apple

●● 2015

Openwashing Visual Studio and Oracle’s Worrisome Embrace of Mono Rather Than Java

Google’s Fight to Keep APIs Free is Lost, Let’s Hope Google Continues Fighting

White House Intervention Harms Android and Every Software Developer on the Planet

Working to End Oracle's and CAFC's Inane War on Interface Reuse

●● 2013

Microsoft Florian Goes Ad Hominem in AstroTurf Against Android, Oracle and Microsoft Help Apple Attack Google

Microsoft and the BSA Align With Oracle in Patent Fight Against Android/Linux

●● 2012

Android FUD Watch: Paul Goldstein From Stanford Paid by Oracle

Oracle Spreads GNU/Linux FUD

Patent Lawsuits Against Linux, Android; Call for Pressuring of Politicians

Apple’s Patent Cases Against Android Continue Falling Apart, Oracle Tries Again

Oracle Starts Fighting a Good Fight, Should Drop Case Against Android

Android Beats Oracle and Apple Patent Challenges

Goodbye Oracle

Google Beats Oracle’s Patents, But the Plague of Software Patents Remains

Android Under Patent Attacks From Nokia, Microsoft, and Oracle

Collateral Damage in Oracle’s Case Against Android

Apple, Microsoft, Oracle (CPTN) and the Latest Patent Hoard Against Android/Linux

Microsoft Patent War on Android/Linux is Backfiring, Oracle is Still Unable to Win a Single Case

Oracle/Apple Litigation Versus Android/Linux

Oracle vs. Google Becoming a Lost Cause

Patents Roundup: Oracle Lessens Android Demands, Red Hat Suggests Cure to Trolls, Debian Adopts New Patent Policy

Patents Roundup: Oracle, Microsoft (via MOSAID), and Apple Lawsuits Against Linux/Android

Oracle is Retreating From Android Patent Case After Steve Jobs’ Death

CPTN (Microsoft, Apple, Oracle) Attack on Android Faces New Setbacks

●● 2011

The Difference Between Microsoft’s Racketeering Against Linux and Oracle’s Racketeering Against Linux

CPTN Members Oracle, Apple, and Microsoft Still Attack Linux With Software Patents

Oracle and SAP Get a Lesson About the Harms of Patents

●● 2010

Red Hat and Oracle Respond to EIFv2, Microsoft Seemingly Plans More Patent Aggression

Apple, Oracle, and Software Patents of Convenience

Gizmodo Glorifies Patent Trolls, Oracle Nods to Software Patents

Adobe Distances Itself From Dave McAllister’s Attack on Oracle and Implicit Defence of Microsoft

Adobe Joins Novell in Daemonising Oracle and Whitewashing Microsoft

Bogus Oracle Patents, Broken USPTO, Apple’s Patent Aggression, and Acacia Gets More Money to Troll

Oracle Hires SCO’s (and Novell’s) Lawyers

Oracle in the SCO Case

ZDNet and IDG ‘Open Source’ Blogs Use Oracle for FUD

Oracle Action Could Cause Migration to GNU/Linux (at Expense of Solaris) and Help Vilify Software Patents

“Microsoft is Cashing Innovation Tax (aka Patent License Money) for Android, Now Oracle Joins the Scheme.”

Groklaw Suspects Apple Might Relate to Oracle’s Attack on Android, Jonathan Schwartz’ Story About ‘Pulling a SCO’ Recalled

Oracle’s Java Aggression Spills to Other Sun Projects

‘Team Microsoft’ Uses Oracle Action Against Google to Promote C#

Apple Benefits From Oracle’s Patent Attack on Android

Novell/Mono Could be Sued by Oracle; Taleo Puts Sun’s Former CEO and Former Novell Employee in the Board

Michael Widenius Lobby Against Oracle a Matter of Self Interest

Oracle Doesn’t “Go Bananas Over EIF 2.0” Being Subverted by Microsoft and Friends

IBM Uses Novell to Take Market Share From Rivals Like Oracle

●● 2009

Oracle Likely to Own MySQL Shortly, European Commission’s Credibility at Stake

Oracle’s Linux Moves — Novell/Microsoft Reminiscence

Does Oracle Still Acquire to Injure MySQL?

Patents Roundup: Oracle, Backlash Against Software Patents, and In Re Bilski (Again)

●● 2008

Novell/Microsoft ‘Pulling an Oracle’ on Red Hat

●● 2007

Is Oracle Microsoft/Novell’s Worst Enemy, Not Red Hat’s?

Is Oracle a Patent FUD-Fighter to Be?

Oracle to Join Open Invention Network

Microsoft and Oracle Pull the FUD Manoeuvre

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