Re: Apple Sauce
Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 10:48:13 -0500 (EST)
Jeff Bone writes:
> Well, that would be Netscape... or... oh, wait, MS killed their market
> cap, they aren't quite a $5B company any more, or... oh, wait again,
> merger time, company being dissected, AOL + Sun or something. Anyway,
> the point still stands --- look at the Mozilla licenses, it's clear that
> Netscape did a better job of "getting it."
You know, it occurs to me that even Sun can be listed here. Granted,
the SCSL is an attempt at cooption, but they have released software
with genuinely free license terms in the past when it suited their
purposes (NFS being the most obvious example). So, the SCSL is
actually backsliding...
rst