Sun preparing open source developers' bill of rights

Right after Sun told GPL developers that they aren't an important enough part of the OSS community when it comes to Sun's patents.

I think Sun needs to either let go, or keep things closed. Most won't care either way, but Sun needs to choose. You can't have it both ways. You can't care only about those who follow your license while thumbing your nose at the others.

paragrin: Maybe they're couting on existing BSD developers joining their cause (chortle).

(PS: You have to know how many BSD people Sun pissed off in the early to mid 90's to get this joke)

No I don't need to know how many BSD developers Sun pissed on. Why because BSD is dying, silly :-)

I only hope Sun changes it's mind before they become SCO II.

There's a BSD/System V holy war that's an undercurrent to the BSD/Linux holy war. The BSD people (and they're are fewer and fewer of these people, btw) of the prior war remember ATT (the makers of System V) as putrid pond scum that came and stole the work that was contributed by Berkley -- more or less starting (inadvertently) the licensing wars. It's funny in a sad kind of way, because you'd be hard pressed to find someone who can really tell the difference from the outside of the OS -- you have to really dig down deep to find anything substantial. Even then it was semantics mostly.

I remember the good old days of pre 1.0 Linux, when during the creation of a kernel (before make xconfig or make menuconfig -- the horror) you got to a certain point in the network stack and one of the variables for choosing (from memory here) a TCP/IP kernel related behavior was named something like "I_AM_A_BROKEN_BSD_WEENIE".

Ahh the good old days.

Oh come on Sun. A "bill of rights" is not a software license, it's hand-waving. Sheeesh, they think F/OSS developers are stupid.