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Re: [News] Sun's CDDL a Barrier to Competition Against GPL-licensed Linux

Roy Schestowitz wrote:

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> Next year critical for Sun's 'Project Copy Linux'
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> | Not helping its case is the fact Sun put OpenSolaris under its own
> | license - Common Development and Distribution License (CDDL). Sun joins
> | a league of other vendors including Microsoft who have written their own
> | licenses rather than use existing open-source licenses. Debian, by
> | contrast, got to its position in the industry using a spread of
> | different, and existing, licenses. Another complication is the
> | Sun-domination of the OpenSolaris work.
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> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/13/ian_murdock_open_solaris/

The guys who wrote the CDDL and pushed it through should go fsck themselves.
After all, they are by now costing their company more in productivity than
those guys and their net annual pay?


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