>On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Ian Collins <ian at ianshome.com> wrote: >> John Sonnenschein wrote: > >> > I don't want to be free labour for Sun. >> But you are happy for Sun's employees to be free labour for you? > >Sun's employees are paid, ergo not free. But either way, a paid >developer doesn't have to buy in to the concept of open source at all, >it's great if they do, but it's ultimately a non-issue so long as >their employer continues
Are you paying Sun's programmers? Are you *required* to pay Sun's programmers? You complain about "working for Sun for free" yet the software that Sun makes is available for free and so is the software you would produce "for free". In fact, one good argue that by making Sun's software free, Sun does not make money from software written for OpenSolaris or which is otherwise contributed. I perhaps saves Sun money but it does not make them money. Casper
