Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL

jskelly writes "Sun Micro President Jonathan Schwartz attacked the GPL at the Open Source Business Conference in San Francisco yesterday.Other than the same old arguments (you can't make it proprietary later) he adds that it imposes on developing nations "a rather predatory obligation to disgorge all their IP back to the wealthiest nation in the world" -- but fails to mention that the converse is also true: the wealthiest nation in the world is similarly, under the GPL, forced to "disgorge all its IP back to the developing nations" as well. Duh!"

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Re:they're just trying to maintain the fascade

[SunFan]

Sun was always highly overpriced and overrated.

Go look at their pricing matrix for Solaris 10. Go look at their pricing for 1 to 4 way servers. Come back and say whether you can really maintain your statement.

And don't go and compare a Sun v490 to some 4-way pentium box from Dell. Compare a v40z or a v440.