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Whoop.

Posted Aug 7, 2003 10:50 UTC (Thu) by rjw (guest, #10415)
In reply to: Whoop. by jonabbey
Parent article: Sun pragmatic about open-source software (News.com)

If you run a non certified VM, you can expect incompatibilities.
That doesn't mean that the licence should preclude the ability of people to modify their VM.

Java will die if it doesn't become open source, Mono will eat its lunch.

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Whoop.

Posted Aug 7, 2003 16:57 UTC (Thu) by jonabbey (subscriber, #2736) [Link]

Perhaps, but Mono has a long way to go, still.

Whoop.

Posted Aug 8, 2003 1:08 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

yes, and after pressure from HP and Intel, Ximian changed the license to X style (noncopyleft).

So any company can take the Mono classes/librarys, extend them and not give their improvements back to the community. Anyone who doesn't share is at an advantage. All code from the Mono crew can be taken away and there's nothing to require others to contribute back.

I can't understand this move at all. The LGPL allows for proprietary linking, why not use it?

Ciaran O'Riordan