-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/17/10 10:34 , Casper Bang wrote: > How would Google open source a service? Just licensing the source code as FLOSS :-) I'd like to point out that Sun Grid (the cloud thing incarnation before the Sun Cloud step) was both a service run on Sun hardware and a software that you were able to install on your hardware. I'm not sure it was FLOSS, but it was available. Of course, it was a failure (see below). > Sun claimed that the Java division was profitable, yet did not > offer something as obvious as cheap and easy hosting a la GAE to > match LAMB and IIS stacks. Sun was not evil, but perhaps a bit > naive. Is Google evil for borrowing from the ecosystem it helped > Sun build? The jury is still out on that, I tend to not think so > though and just call them pragmatic. > Agreed, and remove that 'a bit' before naive (also confirmed by Gosling recalling in these days that initially Sun didn't file patents and they were 'nearly put out of the business' by an old IBM complaint about the RISC). Agreed, Google is pragmatic. And why shouldn't I consider Oracle pragmatic too? Note that we're still repeating the point that Sun failed its business. Right. Since creating the wealth is always the preliminary step before redistributing it, the most worrying thing on earth is the wealthy source not to be stable, such as Sun. So, if Oracle is much stronger and stable, it's a point that makes me happy. Of course, I also want to check the redistribution thing, and if they keep everything for themselves it's not good at all. Still to be seen.
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