Posted by: Anonymous
[ip: 169.233.25.12]
on January 16, 2008 07:23 PM
How would a for-profit institution, like Sun, gain from forever supporting Open Source / Free Software? I was recently told by a Sun employee that they have been hit with hard times, so where is this 1 billion dollars coming from and what can shareholders expect to see? Seeing Sun as a champion of FOSS is a rosy view of the whole situation. When push comes to shove, they will sell out FOSS, so don't expect much.
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Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 169.233.25.12] on January 16, 2008 07:23 PM#