Re: Sun acquires some of my fav software projects...

["Aaron Wade" <]

Great...everything sun touches turns to crap..guess I'll have to move off
of virtualbox which I really enjoy and consider moving away from mysql.
-Aaron

> First, Sun buys MySQL (my favorite rdbms) for one billion dollars.
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> Then, they buy "Innotek" the creators of "VirtualBox" which I also find
> really incredibly useful for running Windows within GNU/Linux.
> http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/015882.html
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> Both projects have a dual-licensing scheme with one of the licenses
> being the GPL (which is nice).  I hope that Sun can make some money on
> the projects without destroying the developer/user communities.
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> --
> Mitch Wiedemann
> Ithaca Free Software Association http://ithacafreesoftware.org
> Free Software Foundation Member #3167 http://www.fsf.org
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