[Ma-linux] Sun and the GPL (or why Sun never learns)

[Serge Wroclawski]

Sun has been a real sad story in my eyes. There was a time I didn't think of them as 
anything more than another SGI, but they're trying to change their company around ala IBM, 
but it's not working.

Read this blog post about a recent incident with Sun and the GPL:

http://blogs.gnome.org/mneptok/2009/07/06/sun-is-gpl-fud-a-standard-business-practice/

Of course it comes on the heels of another recent license issue:

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/05/29/1711203/Java-Gets-New-Garbage-Collector-But-Only-If-You-Buy-Support

You have to wonder how it is that Sun can keep making these types of blunders. They make 
great products, but seem insistant on making their customers into enemies.

- Serge