Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers"

krelian writes "Talking at Netbeans Day, Rich Green, Sun executive vice president for software, expressed doubts about the current open source model in which developers create free intellectual property only to have others scoop it up and generate huge amounts of revenue. Green said, 'I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable. We are looking very closely at compensating people for the work that they do.'" Green didn't provide any details about how payments from Sun or others might work.

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OT: Steel formed the basis for the European Union

[Anonymous Coward]

From wikipedia:

"The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded in 1951 (Treaty of Paris), by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to pool the steel and coal resources of its member-states."

"The ECSC served as the foundation for the later development of the European Economic Community (later renamed the European Community by the Maastricht Treaty), and then the European Union."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_Ste el_Community

Re:all talk, no action

[Anonymous Coward]

Actually Sun *is* the biggest contributor to Open Source by a long way, according to this report:

http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/2006 -11-20-flossimpact.pdf

Cliff's Notes on licenses

[toby]

1. BSD explicitly allows the wholesale appropriation of IP.
2. GPL explicitly disallows it.

Any questions?