Sun Microsystems Seems Shady to Investors
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| The returns from investments in open source come from allowing
| potential customers to try the products and then follow up with real
| sales. It attracts customers. Google's YouTube developed on an non-Sun
| platform and they totally missed it. It took Sun 3 years to engineer
| out code they didn't own in order to make Solaris open source. By making
| it open source this should not happen in the future.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061206/21852_id.html?.v=1
They also have some ties with Canonical (Ubuntu).
Related:
Free Solaris 10 and Sun Studio Software Media Kit
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| For a limited time, Sun is offering a free DVD media kit which includes
| the Solaris 10 Operating System for both SPARC and x86 platforms as well
| as Sun Studio 11 software.
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http://www2.sun.de/dc/forms/reg_us_2211_391.jsp
Will Sun Use GPLv3?
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| First of all, Sun has been engaged directly in the GPL v3 process
| since it started. My colleagues and I attended the launch conference
| in Cambridge, MA at the start of 2006 - I even logged the
| conversation with my friend and collaborator Danese Cooper of Intel.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/about_gplv3
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