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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. Who modded parent informative? by telso · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What's next, modding the parent insightful?

    1. Re:Who modded parent informative? by glavenoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic
      No, sadly enough. Slashdot is becoming the next Digg.com.


      Gee, thanks a lot "Web 2.0". Hopefully people can remember to actually think first in the next iteration of "Web Whatever-Point-Oh". Either that, or kill the MTV androids and let the people back in...

      Whatever happened to humans, anyway? Where did they all go?

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    2. Re:Who modded parent informative? by john83 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      What's next, modding the parent insightful? What's next would be slashdot recognising that some of its community wish to give karma for funny posts.
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    3. Re:Who modded parent informative? by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      They've been here all along.

      You see, humans include those folks who think or act in ways you do not agree with.

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  2. Re:How to compensate developers by TooFarGone · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In other news, Open Source has been found to lead to Open Sores. Story at 11.

  3. Please mod parent down. by Scholasticus · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They may be idiots (though I don't think so), but you're a troll.