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Sun Considering GPL For OpenSolaris
narramissic writes, "At an event today to formally open-source Java, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's president and CEO, and Rich Green, the company's senior VP of software had an exchange in which Schwartz put Green on the spot about using GPL for OpenSolaris: 'Are you averse to changing the license, Rich Green?' Schwartz asked. 'Certainly not,' Green responded, prompting the Sun CEO to fire back in a half-joking manner: 'Will you GPL Solaris, Mr. Green?' 'We will take a close look at it,' Green said, adding that it was possible that the familiarity and comfort level many developers have with the GPL may result in Sun adopting it for OpenSolaris." Another note about Sun's decision to use the GPL for Java comes from reader squiggleslash, who writes: "According to Jonathan Schwartz, the decision of Novell and Microsoft to '(suggest) that free and open source software wasn't safe unless a royalty was being paid' is what prompted Sun to finally come down on using the GPL for Java. So I guess every cloud has a silver lining."
Yep. Microsoft doesn't make any money from hardware sales at all. No siree. Not a dime. And Novell never made anything from hardware sales either.
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Oh lordy, then what's the RMS fan club going to bitch about?
Surely you're toking, mister Nineman.
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Yeah, Right....I bet they'll GPL java before they allow that to happen. :)
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Man, this is Slashdot; please leave your common sense at home like the rest of us basement-dwelling butt-ugly smelly faggots.
Let's not take this out of proportion, it's not like microsoft is the ultimate evil.
That's because he makes his money on hardware, not software.
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