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Sun Joins the Free Software Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-themselves-out-there dept.

RLiegh writes "Ars Technica reports that Sun has joined the FSF Corporate Patron program. The article explains that the FSF corporate program allows companies to provide financial assistance to the FSF in return for license consulting services. The article goes on to observe that this move is doubtlessly motivated by Sun's interest in GPL3's direction. Now that Sun has opened up Java and become an FSF corporate sponsor...could the move to dual license OpenSolaris under the GPL3 be far behind?"

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  1. Brings a whole new meaning to... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everything under the Sun must go!

  2. Re:Sun opened up Java? by Bluesman · · Score: 4, Funny

    These things take time.

    Compounding the problem is that Debian is also notoriously slow to update packages. You might have better luck with apt-get Pascal or apt-get COBOL.

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  3. Re:Is it really doubtless? by CompMD · · Score: 4, Funny

    "all their profitable software remains proprietary."

    So what you're saying is they make money off the software they charge you for, and they don't make money off the free software.

    Shocking!

  4. Disturbance in the Force by turgid · · Score: 4, Funny

    I just felt a tremendous disturbance in the Force. It was if millions of slashbots cried out in pain as their heads asploded.

    With apologies to the late Sir Alec.

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  5. Re:And this can mean only one thing by jZnat · · Score: 2, Funny

    OMG! You're right!

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