Comments on: Imperial Public License

By: Dun Naif

Dun Naif — Mon, 11 Apr 2005 04:05:25 +0000

That is such crap. Sun’s contributed OpenOffice, Gnome, NetBeans, LookingGlass, done major work on Mozilla. And the code is available for Java. What’s not is Microsoft’s ability to fork it - or IBM’s, your big buddy. You’ve become a tool for IBM (who last I checked has given NOTHING OF VALUE to the GPL world).

By: Code Guru

Code Guru — Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:00:49 +0000

It’s quite obvious that Sun would like nothing more than open source to disappear. This comes up every time there is an attempt on their castle hoarding Java from the barbarians at the gate!

By: Dun Naif

Dun Naif — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 16:59:33 +0000

Those competitors are nearly irrelevant in Sun’s big-box world. His point is the biggest competitors are based in America, and developing nations should pay attention to supposedly charitable US-based companys coming to tell them how wonderful GPL is. And while we have morons like this running around, I have a hard time disagreeing.

By: Mike Linksvayer

Mike Linksvayer — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 15:58:31 +0000

His point is then completely wrong. What evidence is there that RHAT is the “near exclusive beneficiary of GPL code in the software industry”? RH is not the Microsoft of the free software world. It has many direct competitors, including Novell/Suse (US & Germany), Mandrake/Conectiva/Mandriva (France and Brazil) and Canonical (South Africa & EU) and may indirect competitors who build on Linux and other GPL software, including Sun and most other large systems companies. There are also countless software companies that do not compete with Red Hat at all that benefit from GPL code. Nearly every software company in existence I’d bet uses some GPL’d tools.

By: Dun Naif

Dun Naif — Sat, 09 Apr 2005 02:22:29 +0000

His point is Red Hat is the near exclusive beneficiary of GPL code in the software industry. And they, along with IBM, are the primary companies benefiting from people running the GPL licensed products. Both are US based companies. Both are complete hypocrites.