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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. OSS is fine, but by NobleSavage · · Score: -1, Troll

    I have serious doubts of Sun's business model.

  2. Goatse! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    http://goatse.ch/

  3. Re:What is this, another FUD article?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought the whole point of Open Source was doing good for mankind in general, not categorically for the investors...
    But the point is that men are inherently greedy individuals. Eventually open source developers strive for more... a bigger house, a flashier car, a cuter woman. These things take money and money is what corporate jobs can offer them. Come to the dark side and get paid for your accomplishments. Communism is dead. It was a failure of an idea, capitalism is king.
  4. Re:What is this, another FUD article?! by NDPTAL85 · · 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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