Oracle's Sword of Damocles forces open source rename
Found on The Register on Monday, 10 January 2011
With Larry Ellison dangling the sword of Damocles over their heads, the leaders of the Hudson community have decided to rename the popular open-source software-build project and move it to a new code repository on GitHub.
"To continue using the name Hudson means ceding some of the project's independence to Oracle. If the project and its governance board opted to go in a direction Oracle disapproved of, Oracle would be able to take away the naming rights."
The community chose Jenkins because it "evokes the same sort of English butler feel as Hudson."
Oracle does it again. It just buys Open Source and then threatens them. Soon nobody will have any interest to work with Larry anymore. Not that this would be bad by any means, that is. The sooner Oracle dies, the better.