Schwartz Attacks GPL; Sun Microsystems' Mention of "Stewardship" Has People Thinking of Java
Sun Microsystems president and COO Jonathan Schwartz has slammed the GPL as predatory economic imperialism while keynoting the Open Source Business Conference and said Sun would remain aloof from it. Meantime Sun has set up a Community Advisory Board (CAB) that's supposed to - in Sun's words - 'steward the evolution of the OpenSolaris community towards self-governance.'
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Zac Stevens commented on 14 Apr 2005
Quote: '''Murmuring is heard about Sun's stated intent to cherry pick any community changes made in the name of "OpenSolaris" and put them in a Sun-blessed, Sun-tested, Sun-supported, Sun-distributed Solaris "subset".'''
As distinct from RedHat's stated intent to cherry pick any community changes made in the name of "Fedora" and put them in a RedHat-blessed, RedHat-tested, RedHat-supported, RedHat-distributed Fedora "subset", known as RedHat Enterprise Linux. I guess that is "not open source" either.
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rm6990 commented on 11 Apr 2005
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The stuff is now due out by the end of the quarter under Sun's new Open Source Initiative-approved royalty-free Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL), a variant of the Mozilla License that forbids putting Solaris code in Linux or connecting it to any GPL code to avoid having to put proprietary IP in the public domain.
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Almost stopped reading at this point. Honestly, could MOG get any dumber (I'm asking if it is possible)? GPL code is copyrighted...Public Domain code isn't. Anyone who doesn't know this should not be reporting on this type of stuff.
I bet MOG is looking forward to her page hits when this gets posted by someone on Groklaw.
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Maureen O'Gara commented on 10 Apr 2005
Oh my, I just read Sun's CDDL license - it looks like I'm totally misinformed in what I wrote. I apologize, but I'm not paid to be accurate, I'm paid to generate web traffic. Oops, I did it again!
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amused commented on 9 Apr 2005
5.10.1. On the off chance that you were willing to do some background research before posting unfounded FUD you would have found that 5.10.1 is the development version of Solaris, and is being made available as Solaris Express. Typing Solaris Express into google to look at the list of additions to Solaris 10 that are in 10.1 is left as an exercise for the author of the article.
The attack on Simon Phipps is totatally unfounded, if he still worked for IBM would he be okay in your eyes?
Do you in anyway understand the reasons why Java is under the JCP? Its not controlled by Sun btw.
This article is nothing more than a troll. Perhaps a job as an editor on slashdot beckons?
Oh dear. This article is arrogant, uninformed and inflammatory. It mixes rumour, hearsay, and made up opinions in the name of journalism. On usenet we would describe the author and article as a troll; being published in an online journal doesn't make it any different.
This article is so full of inaccuracies it needs a more detailed rebuttle (see my blog later). But to answer an00n's question: yes, anyone can use the CDDL for their own code. And no it doesn't need to be specifically fed back to Sun, although the source code must be made freely available to everyone.
Yes, Jedidiah, SOlaris on x86 has historically been painful, but Solaris 10 is a huge leap better, and there are projects in the pipelines to make Solaris x86 an even better proposition. BTW, I run Solaris 10 on my Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop. And I am very pleased with the results.
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an00n commented on 8 Apr 2005
The comments Schwartz makes about the GPL sound more like Sun's CDDL - you can contribute changes to the code, but don't they have to go back to Sun? and you can't use the CDDL code for your own stuff can you?
I'd much rather use non-open Solaris if I had to make the choice. Solaris on x86 has been historically painful. This is why many of us are Linux users despite having years of production experience with Solaris sparc or even Solaris x86.
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