Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 29, 2006 05:26 PM
I don't see why any large corporate developer should be let off the hook for failing to share some money with the OpenSSH project.
This section of the interview was chiefly about money, not source code ("Twice we asked them to cover the travel and accommodation costs for a developer to come to their event, and they refused."), so a GPL-covered OpenSSH would not have gotten the OpenSSH developers the money they seek. Many people in this discussion apparently misread that (or profoundly misunderstand the GPL). Thanks to the OpenSSH developers' generosity, we have another example of how greedy big businesses are. Not surprisingly, really, but important to point out to the younger more naive crowd who frequent these discussions.
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Money, not code, was the thrust of the complaint.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 29, 2006 05:26 PMThis section of the interview was chiefly about money, not source code ("Twice we asked them to cover the travel and accommodation costs for a developer to come to their event, and they refused."), so a GPL-covered OpenSSH would not have gotten the OpenSSH developers the money they seek. Many people in this discussion apparently misread that (or profoundly misunderstand the GPL). Thanks to the OpenSSH developers' generosity, we have another example of how greedy big businesses are. Not surprisingly, really, but important to point out to the younger more naive crowd who frequent these discussions.
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