Chris Steinke writes: > Something inference about Sun taking a bribe from MS to make > OpenSolaris less 'free' or 'open'?
Good grief. We'd muck with our own future for a few one-time trinkets from MS? After spending all this money and time to open up the code? Give me a break. I think a person who makes such a claim should be compelled to point out the "unfree" terms in our license that were supposedly "bought." > I can't help but think that the MS-Novell deal was the > inspiration for this going into completion; the final straw, so What utter rubbish! Anyone who has had to deal with the legal and technical issues behind delivering a mature product into open source (under _any_ license) knows that such a move takes months to accomplish. It's very hard work involving excruciating research. The suggestion that anyone could just slap on a GPL label and put it on an FTP site overnight is plainly stupid. No, I wasn't involved at all with the Java announcement, so I don't have first-hand information about how long they were working on it. Yes, I was surprised by it and didn't expect it at all. It's just obvious to a casual observer that the claim above must be false. And it just gets worse from there. Is Sun behind the Trilateral Commission? What other "news" stories can we expect from slashdot? -- James Carlson, KISS Network <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
