> Alex Leverington writes: > This is much the same thing. It's open source. Get > over it. If > someone wants to use it, that's good. If they're > willing to talk with > the people who invented it, then that's *great*.
Riiight... that's why we usually see people putting stuff in public domain - no ? or in BSD - no ? Ok, so how much code are Linus & Co. are willing to put up in open ? Hell, I consider it as a black hole - stuff goes in but doesn't come out. Ask the *BSD guys. They take stuff and make changes GPL only. As a result the original contributors are left with a very bad taste. It's right in legal sense, but _NOT_ in good faith. If ZFS etc is (dual) licensed as CDDL+GPL, what is to say that other people won't make changes GPL only ? > How or even if Sun is able to make a profit on this > stuff is really > not this group's concern. It's something for > executives and > stockholders to examine, not OpenSolaris developers. > That part is > ust off-topic. Umm.. It *is* a concern. The code we're looking at didn't just appear out of thin air. Sun provides an environment where such things were developed and contributed to community. I AM concerned because if Sun were to do badly, it would mean that the *biggest* contributor to open source will go away! And that would be a bad thing! And secondly. It would be IBM making money out of this. Which isn't a bad thing, but not good either in the sense that they have yet to contribute anything big to community that's not mostly self serving. If Sun's share-holders tighten the noose - the community, whose majority contributors are on Sun payroll, will definitely have something to worry about. - mritun This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
