Hmmm... Being one of the "rest of the world" (as most americans think of us non-americans), this is good. After all, isn't this supposed to be a "world" wide web?
After reading the osted comments, I quickly realised that few out there seem to realize that publishing under GPL is equivalent to giving away the software. This represents a large capital loss for the company as then any number of variants can be published by other companies. In the case of GNU/Linux, this worked, but only because the groups that created the GNU/Linux software had no intention of making money. Sun, however, needs to turn a profit. This can be done only if they keep property of their product. So, if you wan't to see Sun continue as a company, you should support SCSL, because it's finally the sort of comprimise that can work between pure open-source and corparate develepment.
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Hmmm ... Being one of the "rest of the world" (as most americans think of us non-americans), this is good. After all, isn't this supposed to be a "world" wide web?
After reading the osted comments, I quickly realised that few out there seem to realize that publishing under GPL is equivalent to giving away the software. This represents a large capital loss for the company as then any number of variants can be published by other companies. In the case of GNU/Linux, this worked, but only because the groups that created the GNU/Linux software had no intention of making money. Sun, however, needs to turn a profit. This can be done only if they keep property of their product. So, if you wan't to see Sun continue as a company, you should support SCSL, because it's finally the sort of comprimise that can work between pure open-source and corparate develepment.