Jon Stevens wrote:
> I bet that more people would be willing to contribute to Sun's technologies
> if they were under a better license and were more openly accepted.
And contribs didn't fall into a black hole, which is way more important
than the license.
> Example:
> look at how many people have contributed to Tomcat.
That probably had way more to do with tying to the Apache brand than the
OS nature of the licensing terms. If Sun'd released Tomcat under some
open source license without tying to Apache, things might have turned
out quite different.
> It just isn't obvious where I sent my patches to Sun source code under SCSL
> because there isn't a community built up around the code. There aren't open
> mailing lists that I can subscribe to.
License != community. As I'm sure you're in a good position to know :-)
Fixing the license part is hard. Fixing the community part is now
Duncan's job. Go, Duncan!
> There also is no desire to simply
> help Sun write their code for them for free to sell more hardware. What's in
> it for me?
Err, select()? The point of the post was that it was claimed that
select() should be easy to do - so I asked him to prove it.
Jim
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