Sun Says, "Compensate OSS Developers" 210
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.
OT: Steel formed the basis for the European Union (Score:2, Informative)
"The European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) was founded in 1951 (Treaty of Paris), by France, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands to pool the steel and coal resources of its member-states."
"The ECSC served as the foundation for the later development of the European Economic Community (later renamed the European Community by the Maastricht Treaty), and then the European Union."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Coal_and_St
Re:all talk, no action (Score:1, Informative)
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/ict/policy/doc/200
Cliff's Notes on licenses (Score:4, Informative)
2. GPL explicitly disallows it.
Any questions?