begin quoting Todd Walton as of Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 05:50:08AM -0500: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 12:46 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's Sun's relationship with Linux over the years. Rinse and repeat > > this recipe every year or two.... > > 1. Sun releases some cool technology under a lame license like CDDL. > > 2. Linux community badgers Sun and whines and whines about the license. > > 3. Sun either gives in and goes GPL or holds strong and gets > > ignored/marginalized. > > That's about it. Sun should patent this business process. Too bad there's no way to add a step "4. PROFIT!!!" :(
-- The GPL isn't explicitly anti-business, but many GPL advocates are. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
