Re: Mac OS X refund
"Dave Crossland" <[email protected]>
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On 24/01/2008, Neil Darlow <[email protected]> wrote: > Dave Crossland wrote: > > > > http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/writing/osfail.html > > http://www.synack.net/~bbraun/writing/gettingos.txt > > Which doesn't paint a rosy picture for the future of CUPS under Apple's > ownership. A pity for CUPS now being de-facto for many distributions. Yes :-( > The same fate could await MySQL under its new owner, Sun Microsystems, > despite their contributions to free/open source software. In that event > we have a saviour on PostgreSQL, at least. I think Sun is genuinely becoming a totally free software company, more so than any other major free software company in fact, but its just on a decade timescale. > I applaud commercial contributions to free software but I can't help > thinking that the acquisition of existing projects by commerce results > in long-term damage to them - my opinion only. It totally depends on the context, IMO :-) -- Regards, Dave