Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 17, 2005 10:19 AM
Granted, it isn't open source. But it meets some of Stallman's famous broken printer driver use case - you can fix the source, you just can't give your fix to anyone outside your organization without approval.
Maybe they'll find it's to everyone's advantage to be fully open eventually, but the thinking must be that you can always give away more later, but you can't take back what you've given away. Maybe Sun's opening the Java source on the 20 step plan.
The other thing disturbing about Sun is their love/hate relationship with Linux. McNealy talking out of both sides of his mouth, that stupid consortium that claims that Linux is too risky for enterprise use and so on. But that grandstanding has little to do with this license.
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sounds reasonable to me
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 17, 2005 10:19 AMMaybe they'll find it's to everyone's advantage to be fully open eventually, but the thinking must be that you can always give away more later, but you can't take back what you've given away. Maybe Sun's opening the Java source on the 20 step plan.
The other thing disturbing about Sun is their love/hate relationship with Linux. McNealy talking out of both sides of his mouth, that stupid consortium that claims that Linux is too risky for enterprise use and so on. But that grandstanding has little to do with this license.
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