My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun's GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.
Oops: "At $1 billion ... Sun paid a multiple of 10 times sales for MySQL today. Optimistically assuming a 20% profit margin, they are looking at a multiple of 50 times earnings for a return on investment of around 2% per year. Optimistically."
Steve does the Sun/MySQL aquisition Q&A and speculates on some interesting effects of the deal: "... YouTube sold for $1.6 billion, and consumed virtually no software. If that acquisition was to take place today, they would have been buying from Sun."
What?!
Schwartz: "... we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform, and to the legal defense of free software innovators."
"Maybe I’ll start to believe when they start promoting Ruby on Rails at JavaOne, as opposed to promoting JRuby on Rails at RailsConf."
"'Why are they doing all this?', that's a common concern with most Ruby folks ... A Sun that's heavily involved with Rails on the software side is a Sun that's much better positioned to sell loads of hardware ..."
"And yes, I've seen the Microsoft news ... If Sun did something like this I'd resign."
Best Open Letter Ever. Add your signature!
Is anyone actually falling for this crap? "'The goal is to make it so people never have to see code', said Gosling." -- Gag Me!
Slashdot has become a horrible discussion forum for most topics. Disk theory and UNIX sysadmin type stuff is an exception, though. This story on ZFS might have the most informational comments I've seen in years.
I haven't had a chance to play yet but you can consider me on the ZFS bandwagon. It's coming to FreeBSD 7.0, too. Oodalolly!
Elliotte isn't pulling any punches :)
Good perspective on Java going GPL.
haha. this cracked me up...
As it turn out, Sun Microsystems owns the word "share" and they aren't sharing it..
The Sun bashing posts today are superb!
Bwwahhahahahaaa.
Superb rant against Sun's licensing tactics and especially Gosling's cluelessness wrt what's important in a license.