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Sun Offers To Relax OpenOffice.org License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the muting-the-critcism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "This article at The Register says Sun has offered to relax licensing terms for contributers' code. "The moves should go some way towards muting criticism from the OpenOffice.org community that Sun was treating members as free labour and nothing else, and taking them at face value...""

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  1. LAme! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post! but really, what's this gonna change. we all ignore the windoze EULAs as it is...

  2. kick butt! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is gonna rock!
    Die MS die!

  3. Man by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What a dull artcile .... FLAME ON FLAME ON>.....

  4. Re:Jesus, YANSFL by MisterBlister · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shut up you dirty communist.

  5. Re:Jesus, YANSFL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Shut up you dirty capitolist.

  6. This is a good thing... by Newer+Guy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Now if only Microsoft would...

    NAH! Never happen!!!

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  8. Re:Evolution of a software license by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Do you people really find these comments funny...post after post after post?

    Saying beowulf cluster this and that was funny like the first 2 times it was said. After that it was just lame. I actually heard someone in public say that they would like to have a 30 node beowulf cluster of yada yada yada. I walked up to him and said "What so that you could just freaking stare at it? What's the point? What in the #e!!would you actually do with it that would make your life more meaningful?"
    I've been ready slashdot for years. At first it really seemed informative and the comments actually enhanced the articles. But as of late it just bores the ever living daylights out of me.

    1> Kick all of you lamer's asses.
    2>?????
    3>PrOfiT!!!!!!!

  9. Hmm by zapfie · · Score: 0, Troll

    What would happen if groups started releasing code without a licence at all? Why don't they?

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  10. Re:What Bill Joy thinks about open source licensin by civilizedINTENSITY · · Score: 1, Troll
    What Bill Joy *really* thinks...

    http://monkey.org/geeks/archive/9911/msg00006.ht mlEntitled

    "Free means FREE GODDAMMIT! (the GPL is EVIL)" Mr. Joy eloquently presented his opinion on the Free Software licensing debate which has raged through engineering circles ever since East Coast programmer and Free Software advocate Richard Stallman hired several copyright attorneys to develop his so-called "CopyLeft" General Public License. Here is an excerpt:
    Free means FREE GODDAMMIT! (the GPL is EVIL) I sit here at my terminal coding a storm in my vi, a malloc() for some array, while strncpy() bounds a check, but inside I seethe -- inside I rumble, at all the lines locked up, and the derived headers claimed with glee, for I know the caged free() consumed by the GPL! Free means FREE GODDAMMIT, it means I take and offer as I please, it doesn't mean to taint my work, just because I swiped some header, or one little readline, it's the state of being FREE, as opposed to the state of being NOT FREE! Don't you understand RMS, the GPL is EVIL!, it's a blight of a free license, and a virus to behold, consuming all code afterwards, in an atomic chain reaction, like red tide spread across our ocean, all our oysters now inedible! Free coders far and wide, listen to my swan-song by the sea, for while Solaris kicks BSD's ass, and my SCSL is a sight to see, at least BSD and MIT leave code FREE, unlike that UNAMERICAN red GPL crap, with it RMS will suck you dry, Because Free means FREE GODDAMMIT! and The GPL is EVIL!
    When asked for comment Richard Stallman had only this to say,"Wow, Bill is a terrible poet!"