-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/7/10 10:10 , Miroslav Pokorny wrote: > > Too me its like taking an open source library, making lots of cash > and never even giving the authors a donation. Yes its legal but > its overall, its disappointing. > I don't disagree on the whole, but the problem here is clearly separating the legal vs moral spheres. When we talk about individuals, it might make sense of talking of moral. When we talk about corporates, it doesn't. I find pretty natural for each corporate (especially the larger ones) to push the limit of what they can do as far as they get to the legal boundary. It's certainly not only an "american" thing. I don't argue that, and that's for this reason that I think that, on the whole, there's no big difference between Oracle and Google. In other words, it's business. Of course, we're free to apply moral categories to corporates, but it sounds pretty useless to me, as everybody has got his own personal perspective (and one might always recall that corporates have got a _moral_ obligation to increase the ROI of stock holders as much as they can).
That's why I prefer to think of the ongoing war merely in terms of what it could bring, of positive or negative, to me and the community. - -- Fabrizio Giudici - Java Architect, Project Manager Tidalwave s.a.s. - "We make Java work. Everywhere." java.net/blog/fabriziogiudici - www.tidalwave.it/people fabrizio.giud...@tidalwave.it -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.14 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkyF+e0ACgkQeDweFqgUGxcXVACfdhf4jB0IqzBesz88hosX6vFR l6QAn3g44UafdtHsMhQ7j2Q7mkjtqL6O =ZDSq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javapo...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
