On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 5:44 PM, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > Matthias Pfützner wrote: >> You (Chris Pickett) wrote: >>> Next on this channel: Source code access on a paid subscription level >>> and you have to pay $$$ per incident if you want to contribute to ON >> >> HOW do you think, LEGALLY you can LIMIT access to Open Source? >> >> Start thinking, please! > > Besides if we really wanted to make money, there's not much revenue in > charging for commits to ON at the current contribution rate - much better > to charge per post to the mailing lists / web forums. > > Of course, we'd offer free posting credits to those who did contribute code, > since such contributions require some discussion for review and such - so > at this point, Roland & Olga would have a decent balance of free posts built > up for them to use, but certain other people would be deeply in debt to > Oracle. > > Fortunately, they keep people like me far away from the business folks, so > we don't try to sell insane ideas like this to them... 8-) > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
Sadly Sun does not WANT my contributions. So why shall I publish them? I only do so, if you guys intend to use my libpciaccess fixes plus SPARC gfx Xorg patches. Then alone and only. Therefore not. %martin bochnig _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list website-discuss@opensolaris.org
