See Bryan Cantrill's talk from LISA: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&feature=playe... , where he has a good comparison of not anthromorpizing Larry Ellison and Oracle. Paraphrased, "Think of him of as a lawnmower. The lawnmower doesn't care about opensourcing Solaris. The lawnmower _can't_ care about it, it's a lawnmower".
Oracle cares about making money and protecting their revenue stream. Getting Lodsys of the backs of their customers is one way of doing that.
Yeah, I saw that - some great stuff in there, particularly on the history of Solaris. It's great context for understanding what's going on in the Illumos world.
Oracle cares about making money and protecting their revenue stream. Getting Lodsys of the backs of their customers is one way of doing that.