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Mittwoch April 13, 2005

Jonathan comments on his recent GPL statements (his blog entry from Sunday)
I thought it would be useful to post Jonathan's quote about Sun's usage of the GPL here, since the news about his OSBC speech were posted to this blog as well.

"Does this mean we don't believe in the GPL? Absolutely Not. We're one of the most prolific contributors of code under a GPL license (remember, we delivered Project Looking Glass and OpenOffice under it). But a license governing the development of a productivity application used to create documents deserves fundamentally different scrutiny than a license for infrastructure to be integrated into nascent industries or economies. And understanding the difference is crucial to preserving choice and opportunity. Just as there's no one desktop for all the world to use, there is no one operating system - and critically, there's no one license for all open source software."
( Apr 13 2005, 08:26:24 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [1]

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It is ironic that a company that built itself from open source seems to find it so easy to upset that same community consistently on a regular basis.

Perhaps next time Jonathan should stay at home, that way he and other Sun engineers wouldn't have to keep defending what he says.

Gesendet von Dave J Naylor am April 13, 2005 at 07:01 PM CEST #

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