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As is stated in the article you linked, this one embarassing comment was found in the grub source code, which is open source anyway and wasn't written by sun. Hmmmm.
View ArticleThanks for correcting me
Thanks for correcting me (thanks also to dancerj), I need to read a bit more thoroughly... I still think the comment is funny, just for other reasons now ;-)To compensate for my messing up, here's one...
View ArticleWhy Sun won't make OpenSolaris GPL-compatible
My guess is that Sun intentionally made OpenSolaris GPL-incompatible to avoid contributing code that could benefit Linux and the rest of the Free Software community. They want a walled garden, as much...
View ArticleYes, but there may be hope left...
I think you may be right, otherwise they would have just used a well-known license like the GPL, LGPL or BSD license. Maybe there will be enough pressure and/or encouragement in the community, so that...
View ArticleWith all due respect... I
With all due respect... I disagree. (disclaimer: I'm a Sun employee.. on top of that, I'm part of the kernel team working on OpenSolaris, so maybe I'm biased, though I would like to think I'm objective...
View ArticleI explained the issue with
I explained the issue with the GPL/LGPL licensing in my comment above; but I think the reason they avoided the BSD license was for the patent protection. It was impossible to give patent protection to...
View ArticleThanks!
Hey, thanks for posting this! Free software is always good, but let's not forget that nothing in life is free. So if any readers out there stumble onto good free software that they end up using on a...
View ArticlePLaneShift
PlaneShift is completely GPLed. No apt/deb package (yet?) but the game's installer works pretty allright. It reminds me of those nights at some friend's house, looking at installshield-screens because...
View ArticlePlaneshift
Yeah, Planeshift would be nice, but unfortunately only the code is GPL'd , but the data is under a proprietary license (that's why there won't be any Debian packages). It's really a shame.However, if...
View ArticleBig Buck Bunny
Every time my husband and I feel a little bit down, we watch the Big Buck Bunny movie and laugh our heads off. The humorous antics of "Bird" are to our liking.... especially those at the very end of...
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