Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers"

Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers" 210

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:09AM from the just-haggling-over-the-price dept.

krelian writes "Talking at Netbeans Day, Rich Green, Sun executive vice president for software, expressed doubts about the current open source model in which developers create free intellectual property only to have others scoop it up and generate huge amounts of revenue. Green said, 'I think in the long term that this is a worrisome scenario [and] not sustainable. We are looking very closely at compensating people for the work that they do.'" Green didn't provide any details about how payments from Sun or others might work.

Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers"

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Re:What is this, another FUD article?! (Score:4, Funny)

by TapeCutter ( 624760 ) writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:20AM (#19033467) Journal

It's brilliant. Sun can collect money for starving coders like the mafiaa collecy money for starving artists, what could possibly go wrong?

Re:tripple edged sword (Score:2, Funny)

by l3v1 ( 787564 ) writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:24AM (#19033485)

correction: "understanding is a three-edged sword"...

How to compensate developers (Score:3, Funny)

by TodMinuit ( 1026042 ) writes: <todminuitNO@SPAMgmail.com> on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @05:27AM (#19033511)

One word: Hookers. Lots of'em!

Re:What is this, another FUD article?! (Score:5, Funny)

by bursch-X ( 458146 ) writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @06:29AM (#19033795)

Guess what's the most important activity of the 21st century?

Based on the most recent statistics of internet use:
Sending spam and watching porn.

Re:How to compensate developers (Score:3, Funny)

by sbryant ( 93075 ) writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @06:30AM (#19033799)

One word: Hookers. Lots of'em!

I guess you'd be interested in this geek service [theregister.co.uk] then...

-- Steve

Re:What is this, another FUD article?! (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @07:13AM (#19034013)

Guess what's the most important activity of the 21st century? Yeah, that's right, software development.
Early post + low ID - substantiation = karma

Re:Interesting stuff is at the bottom (Score:2, Funny)

by Kurrurrin ( 790594 ) writes: on Tuesday May 08, 2007 @08:00AM (#19034233)

Oh boy, I'll finally be a lvl 4 web developer!

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