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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It will make no difference to Linux development.
The vast majority of the people who actually develop the Linux kernel do so because they care about the Linux kernel or are paid to work on the Linux kernel. The number who switch because of gplv3 versus gplv2 will be trivial.
I said nothing about development. I am talking about distribution. If there is a whole sale switch to GPLv3 (which I am NOT counting on, I am only making a point), distributors would be more likely to make a switch to the Solaris kernel to alleviate any possible license incompatibilities.