On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:33 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: > On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 12:30 AM, Ralph Goers <ralph.go...@dslextreme.com> > wrote: >> >> On Jun 5, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Niall Pemberton wrote: >>> >>> It could be argued either way. I am sure if IBM put its efforts to >>> LibreOffice then I'm sure it would be a great success. So why doesn't >>> IBM want to take part when theres a great FOSS community already in >>> existence? >> >> Did you not read my post in reply to you an hour ago? The answer is >> obvious. IBM is not an "Open Source" company but a proprietary software >> company. Those are two separate business models. That is like asking >> Microsoft why you can't have the source code for Windows. Expecting a >> Leopard to change into a Lion is simply not going to happen - at least not >> quickly. >> > > I did read it - but IBM has decided to happily contribute to the GPL'd > OpenJDK - so I don't believe it has to change any spots.
Yes, it does. IBM doesn't have to operate under the GPL because Oracle has given them permission to use some other license. With LibreOffice that is not an option. Ralph --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
