> Fernando Cassia writes:
>
> Parasite is IBM, which profits from the Linux kernel
>> but hasn´t open sourced ANY of its crown jewels.
>>
>
> I don't get this. The whole point of Open Source is that everyone gets it,
> no questions asked. If you care what is going to get done with it, don't
> Open Source it. There's no requirement that users of Open Source have to
> Open Source their own stuff.
>
>
Put my words in context, Jordan. We were discussing whether Sun helped open
source or not. O if corporations were necessary to the advancement of open
source software. You mentioned the word "parasite". Hence my comment, IBM is
much more of a parasite than Sun, which released plenty of code for the
benefit of the open source community, making it a more viable platform,
faster than it woudl have been without its contributions.
I forgot Virtualbox. Sun, under McNealy, bought German firm Innotek and released its Virtualbox virtualization solution as Free Software, finally giving a free, GPL option to the closed source alternatives (Microsoft´s VirtualPC and Vmware).
FC