Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday May 7, 2007 @09:09PM 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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Re:What is this, another FUD article?! by NDPTAL85 · 2007-05-08 00:55 · Score: 0, Troll

Yeah it says the corporate managers have some sense, and the guys who give away their work for free do not.

Go ahead and mod me down because yes I have in fact just called the overwhelming majority of unemployed open source developers idiots.

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