He's Never Invited me for dinner!
When I got in this morning someone had already sent me a pointer to
Jonathan Schwartz's blog/"Open" letter to Linus Torvalds. Jonathan's
blog is in response to a recent posting of Linus's where Linus
expresses skepticism about Sun's motives and sincerity around Open
Source and GPLv3.
I love the fact that Jonathan himself wrote an open and immediate
response and that the tone was so level and polite, heck Linus even got
a dinner invitation out of it. As a member of Sun's Free and Open
Source group and the guy tasked with further strengthening our ties to
the GNU/Linux community this kind of Sr. management attention makes my
job a lot easier.
Comments
I also got a big kick out of the comments posted. As of now there are 73 comments and they range from the supportive:
Jonathan - pure class. Linus is obviously making valid points within
his sphere of influence. You've countered with friendly, professional
and intelligent thoughts.
Posted by
Mr. E.
on June 13, 2007 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Sun sucks...that's all.
Posted by thetruebeliever on June 13, 2007 at 06:21 PM PDT #
And thats great. A discussion is happening in the open and all
opinions are welcomed. For it is through dialog and building
relationships that we (Sun, Linus, the FOSS movement) will all
truly succeed.
Pau for now...
