Sun CEO: "A Clear Economic Model Behind Open Source"
Posted by marinasum on March 5, 2008 at 5:58 PM EST
A recent JDJ article, Jonathan Schwartz: "Web Developers Never Had It So Good", quotes the Sun CEO extensively about open source and about the background for Sun's recent acquisition of MySQL. Quite a few illuminating tidbits!
"Crippling products or sneaky licensing exceptions don't work—freedom does," says Jonathan. On that belief, Sun has been embracing the open-source model for many of its products and technologies.
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by gadominas - 2008-03-06 12:44
Big thanks to SUN for saving great db from Oracle :) Anyway it's interesting step from SUN. SUN is a service provider not a licences...