After hearing how Solaris support when down the drain with Oracle stewardship, I'd say staying away from anything Oracle sounds reasonable. At least if it isn't under something like GPL with a patent grant.

(Yes, the fact that they screwed minor Solaris customers does not translate to them suing over IP -- but then again, they already did the last part to).

Oracle is probably a great company to invest in; they make a lot of money -- but that alone doesn't make them a good stakeholder in your core business. I wouldn't want to partner with McDonalds either.

How very open-minded of you. At least consider the project on it's metrics, not on your distaste for a particular corporation.

Being under control by Oracle is part of it's merits, and it counts massively negatively for a lot of us.

On HN perhaps, but not on the big corporations league.