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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
