Strip Mining of Open Source

Courtesy Linux Today  Wed, 09/03/2008 - 07:01

IT Pro: "...Fleury claimed that "IBM reacted negatively to the Sun announcement" that Java would be released under the GPL "because IBM's approach to open source is what we call 'strip mining'..."


 

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