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HP Calls For Sun and IBM to Remove OS Licenses

Posted by Zonk on from the cow-for-free dept.

Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that in order to help nudge Linux and open source software further into the enterprise, a vice president at Hewlett-Packard Co yesterday called on rivals IBM Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc to invalidate their open-source software licenses in favor of a free licensing model. During his keynote at the LinuxWorld Conference in San Francisco yesterday, HP's vice president of open source and NonStop Enterprise Martin Fink commended the Open Source Initiative on setting up new rules to limit the growth of open-source licenses." From the article: "He asked IBM to deprecate its open-source license and instead put it under the General Public License, the most popular license for free software that gives users the freedom run the program for any purpose, to study how it works, to modify and improve it and distribute copies. In contrast, an open-source license, like IBM's, is copyrighted. Fink also called on Sun Microsystems to deprecate its Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), which applies to OpenSolaris, GlassFish and JWSDP, and to re-license Solaris 10 under the General Public License, which drew the crowd's applause."

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  1. A far more interesting story by Darkman,+Walkin+Dude · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yahoo buys a billion worth of a chinese internet company...

    Or possibly this story about tourists being offered a chance to fly around the moon for 100 million.

    Sigh. Maybe its in the mysterious future, but I just don't know what slashdot is coming to these days... It ain't what it used to be.

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    1. Re:A far more interesting story by Christianfreak · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well at risk of getting into a low UID war (hey mine's just over 100k!!!) I'll have to say even though the OP has a high UID he is quite correct. /. is becomming more about the "bad stuff" that's going to take away all our freedom than it is about cool technology anymore. Personally I feel the tipping point was the Napster case.

      Sad.

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  2. Re:s/GPL/BSD/ by JonnyCalcutta · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    In general, people must be motivated or forced to do the right thing

    I'm glad you agree with our European socialist policies now.

  3. Are you sure? by Saeed+al-Sahaf · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are ignoring Zonk's wonderful stories. How can you say such thing about a site where cunnilingus and video games is seriously discussed?

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