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Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwareMark Shuttleworth on companies and free softwarePosted May 26, 2011 8:11 UTC (Thu) by farnz (guest, #17727)In reply to: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software by dkg Parent article: Mark Shuttleworth on companies and free software
On a similar level, how about OpenSolaris (which required assignment) versus Linux? Both were mature kernels - if copyright assignment makes things better, why didn't Shuttleworth choose to switch to OpenSolaris instead of Linux? My trouble with his analogy is exactly the same as yours - I see that long term, projects with contributor agreements go proprietary. Projects without stay free. If I'm contributing to proprietary software, I expect to be paid hard cash for my code. If I'm contributing to free software, I'm happy to be paid in kind.
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