Re: [cobalt-users] OSRCD (slightly off topic?)

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On 11/10/02 6:55 PM, "Devin Smith" wrote:

> I think everyone here is missing the point.  Sun Microsystems, no matter
> how you view it, owns intellectual property rights on the OSRCDs that
> belongs solely to Sun Microsystems.  If they choose to not allow people
> to re-distribute this property, then they can certainly ask/force people
> to stop.  I'm sure if Gerald was giving the OSRCDs away for free, Sun
> wouldn't care.  But he is charging for them, and they feel that he is
> profiting off their work.  As I said before, it's their perogative, and
> they have the right to dictate who can distribute their software.  You
> have to remember, this isn't the little company that could (Cobalt),
> it's Sun Microsystems. :-)

I thought that Sun was using Open Source products with a few items that had
a different license?? Correct me if I am wrong, but under an Open Source
license, which much of Sun/Cobalt servers are built (RedHat) then they may
not actually have a leg to stand with.

Exactly what license is the server based on BSD, GPL, GNU or M$?

Maybe the Qbalt movement, or some of the other projects I see happening at
SourceForge and maybe some other lists can bring about a community that
helps and shares and doesn't say to "take it off list" or stifle the
creative flows that I have seen come from this list.

My -2¢ and then some...

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David Thurman
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