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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2006-02-15
I said nothing about development.
Nobody said you did.
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.
Distributors of what, Solaris?
None of the Linux distros are going to switch kernels just because of GPL versions. It's just more work than it's worth.
Besides, how could the GPLv3 create a license incompatibility with the GPLv2 when the FSF says it's only trying to solve the same problems?