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Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the release-the-claws dept.

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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  1. Frosty piss? by Bongoots · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Nearly 1000 people listening to the biggest hardcore radio station in the world!! :D

    DJ Silver is playing *LIVE* from Japan and going overtime now.

    Listen in from http://www.di.fm/mp3/hardcore96k.pls http://www.DI.fm or http://www.HappyHardcore.com !!

    1. Re:Frosty piss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      While this is off topic, it would be awesome to break 1000.

    2. Re:Frosty piss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      You have wretched taste in music.

      Try listening to some real hardcore, not hardcore techno garbage. Give Dillinger or Cephalic Carnage some time. Not that they're fantastic, but hardcore techno is the shittiest shit I've had the opportunity to experience in this life.

    3. Re:Frosty piss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Its happyhardcore. If you dont like it fine, but its not techno. Techno is stuff from Dave the drummer, really repetative detroit stuff.

    4. Re:Frosty piss? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      ...hardcore techno is the shittiest shit I've had the opportunity to experience in

      Think so? You obviously haven't listened to Dillinger or Cephalic Car...oh wait...

  2. Re:they're just trying to maintain the fascade by SunFan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.

    --
    -- Microsoft is the most expensive commodity operating system and office suite vendor in the marketplace.