Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 28th Feb 2007 17:14 UTC, submitted by Francis Kuntz
Sun Microsystems is the latest company to become a patron of the Free Software Foundation. The FSF's corporate patron program allows companies to provide financial sponsorship for the FSF in return for free license consulting services. High-profile FSF patron affiliates include prominent technology companies like Google, Nokia, IBM, Cisco, and Intel. FSF involvement represents Sun's latest attempt to take a more active role in the open-source software community.
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This is good news for the the Free Software community but it could be bad news for the Linux kernel. If there is a wholesale switch to GPLv3 the Linux kernel will be left out in the cold while the Solaris kernel will look a lot more enticing to Free Software distributors.