Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 13, 2007 10:03 UTC (Wed) by venkatesh045 (guest, #45744)
Parent article: Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

You could read Jonathan Schwartz's reply to this post. I think he clarifies a lot of issues as to what Sun is looking at. This post is actually worth a good read.

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Linus on GPLv3 and ZFS

Posted Jun 13, 2007 12:25 UTC (Wed) by marduk (subscriber, #3831) [Link] (1 responses)

Reads like typical salesmanship. Sales talk always "sounds" good...

I actually disagreed with his implication that communities don't compete (only corporations). There exists competition in the OSS community.

competition

Posted Jun 13, 2007 12:47 UTC (Wed) by qu1j0t3 (guest, #25786) [Link]

There difference may be that it's augmentative competition rather than destructive - In business, it's optimal to completely eliminate rivals. In open source, you don't have to do that; you can just do better. It's a more pure meritocracy. I hope. :)

That said, there's still some dirty pool played from time to time, but since it's played in the open, it hardly festers.