On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 12:02 AM, Kevin Wright <[email protected]>wrote:

> It's not about the size of any license fee.
>
> Even if Oracle and Google come to some agreement whereby Google pays $0.00
> in licensing, it still completely undermines the whole basis of open source.
>  Fork Android and you'd have to negotiate your own license fee payments with
> Oracle - they have you by the short and curlies...
>
> Compare what the interaction between the community and the evolution
process between a project sponsored by a large company and that of some
average person and you will see many differences. Google already have
demostrated how big business does OSS, its very much different from others -
plz explain how private branches are a necessity.

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