On Oct 11, 4:38 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > This all happened in less than 2 months:
Yes, ofc. OpenSolaris was the first to go. The future of MySQL is looking suspicious. OpenOffice has already become "Libre Office" as published by the "Document Foundation": http://www.documentfoundation.org/download/ The lawsuit of Oracle against Google is for their (Google's) implementation of the Dalvik lookalike Java runtime, which apparently breaks the conditions of the Java open-source licence. It turns out that in order to use the Java open-source licence, one has to completely implement the entire Java specification. If only a subset is implemented, the open-source licence no longer applies. It is insane. It seems Java was never really true open-source to begin with, and it sounds like the opportunity to go after Google was one of the carrots in the Oracle-Sun takeover to begin with. Hence the appeal of more straightforward, easy-to-understand licences such as the WTF licence: http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/ :)
