Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On 2/15/06, Chris Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> wrote:
>
> jonah(dot)harris(at)gmail(dot)com ("Jonah H. Harris") writes:
> > The GPL, while nice in its intent, sucks for businesses.
>
> It _doesn't_ suck if you are the business that owns the entirety of
> the code. If you are *that* business, you have plenty O choices,
> pointedly including:
>
> - Selling under other licenses to make mucho dinero
> - Selling all your rights to Oracle for a big bundle of money
>
> Those factors definitely *don't* suck if you are the owner of the
> code.

True. I was relating to customers of companies using the GPL; Although,
thanks for clarifying it for everyone.

-Jonah