From: tfb@tfeb.org (Tim Bradshaw)
Subject: [TUHS] Bell Labs Holmdel site coming down
Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 21:41:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C195F4F7-95E5-4B74-9696-92CACC751928@tfeb.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200605192016.25862.wes.parish@paradise.net.nz>
On 19 May 2006, at 09:16, Wesley Parish wrote:
> Three - there is usually a group of people willing to do this sort
> of work -
> voluntarily - as the Groklaw example shows us, so it's often more
> an inertia
> thingee than anything more serious.
>
I think this is off topic now, but the issue is that the company that
signed the license agreements is the entity that is liable to be
sued. So it is their responsibility to ensure that they are safe
from that. That pretty much means it will cost them money, because
*their* engineers and legal people will have to check things, and
demonstrate to the satisfaction of the officers of the company (who
carry the can if they get sued) that it's OK.
This doesn't mean it can't happen (as said in another branch of this,
people within Sun have tried it before) but it does mean it's
competing with other stuff for resource. Would Sun (say) improve
their chances of survival by to open source SunOS 4 (which, although
people romanticise it now, actually sucked, even at the time - it was
only being better than early SunOS 5 and being a long time ago that
make it seem nice) or to open source Java? Or by doing neither?
Sorry for the rant, I'll shut up now.
--tim
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-19 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 22:30 Stuart, Jon
2006-05-17 23:13 ` John Cowan
2006-05-18 1:42 ` Wesley Parish
2006-05-18 8:36 ` Tim Bradshaw
2006-05-19 8:16 ` Wesley Parish
2006-05-19 20:41 ` Tim Bradshaw [this message]
2006-05-18 8:50 ` Peter Jeremy
2006-05-18 9:42 ` Wilko Bulte
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-18 14:34 Michael Sokolov
2006-05-18 2:48 Norman Wilson
2006-05-17 22:40 Michael Sokolov
2006-05-17 21:39 patv
2006-05-17 23:27 ` Lyrical Nanoha
2006-05-17 19:56 patv
2006-05-17 20:48 ` Lyrical Nanoha
2006-05-17 15:29 tuhs
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