[Opensim-dev] Clarification on Licencing and Moving Forward as a Community

[Daniel Smith]

My thought is:  just be prepared for the nightmare scenario.  To me, that
would be
something like Oracle buying LL.  What they just did to the OpenOffice
developers
gives me pause:

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-20/oracle-to-openoffice-staff-libre-to-leave-009052.php

Obviously the OpenOffice situation is different, but it's another data point
as to
the *attitude* of a company like Oracle.

I think a lot of folks want to see OpenSim in an unassailable position for
virtual worlds,
in the manner that the Apache server has been for the web.

Hmm, perhaps a better story to reference - Oracle suing Google over java...
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2010/08/oracles-java-lawsuit-undermines-its-open-source-credibility.ars

The SCO Unix debacle also comes to mind :)

Daniel
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