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On Tuesday 10 August 2004 01:10 pm, Meyer, David R wrote:
> So...here is what I don't understand, and what I am asking you help in
> understanding is why it seems the Open Source community is being so hard
> on CA? We are funding several Open Source projects, we've Open Sourced
> our Ingres DB, and we're offering up a total purse of one million bucks
> to those who write and submit database conversion tools from XXX to
> Ingres.
As others have pointed out, the Open Source community have learned the hard
way how corporations don't play nice. It's seemingly only about money. No
good will at all.
So you are going to have to earn it by doing the right thing.
Look on HP. They screwed up a few times.
Then they bought Suse and got interested in the survival of Linux. Now they
are helping big time by nailing SCO.
They earned our trust by putting down hard dollars for protecting our cause.
And have been GPL'ing closed source tools from Suse.
Now look at CA's history with the community.
Open up some products, sell support and make sure you get a guy in there who
actually understands how this community works. Like Bruce Peren. Nothing is
going to make this work smoother than having someone on the inside.
Migrate some products to Linux and GPL them. You can still sell windows
products at full price. After all it's all up to you, you own the products.
Once you see that there are different ways of earning your dollars, get good
at it and start migrating more and more products to Linux and GPL.
Don't even bother with another license for your Linux products than the GPL.
At this point you are too clueless to know what works and not. Apache does
have a non GPL license, which may be compatible with GPL, lawyers are hacking
it out right now. But these guys are known and know what they are doing.
Really, call Bruce Peren and ask for his advice. He used to work for HP and is
the guy who got them interested in Linux.
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Steve Szmidt
"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve
neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin
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