What's Mine Is Mine & What's Yours Is Mine,Too
Posted by: Prototerm
on March 17, 2005 11:12 PM
It appears to me that the main reason Sun doesn't much like the GPL is that they can't appropriate someone else's hard work, and claim it as their own. They certainly don't want to share their toys with the other children, but they expect others to share with them.
You can't have the advantages of FOSS without paying the price for it, and that price is sharing. At least Microsoft (with its<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET) isn't pretending to be something it's not. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with proprietary software. I just have a problem with someone pretending that something's not proprietary, when it clearly is.
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What's Mine Is Mine & What's Yours Is Mine,Too
Posted by: Prototerm on March 17, 2005 11:12 PMYou can't have the advantages of FOSS without paying the price for it, and that price is sharing. At least Microsoft (with its<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.NET) isn't pretending to be something it's not. Don't get me wrong, I have no problem with proprietary software. I just have a problem with someone pretending that something's not proprietary, when it clearly is.
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