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Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-haggling-over-the-price dept.

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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  1. Cliff's Notes on licenses by toby · · Score: 3, Informative

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

    Any questions?

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    you had me at #!