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I'm sure they could have licensed the equivalent code from someone like Oracle, but the CFO would have probably balked at the costs. VMware received an extremel
by shiggerino 12y ago
I'm sure they could have licensed the equivalent code from someone like Oracle, but the CFO would have probably balked at the costs. VMware received an extremely generous offer from Hellwig and his co-contributors, at zero price, even. Not honouring their side of the deal is no different from defrauding any other of their contractors.
- callahad 12y agoI'm actually agreeing with you. The trick is that the remedy for defrauding a vendor is clear: you pay a fine. I've worked directly with folks who believed that the only remedy for a GPL violation was completely turning over their entire business to the public domain. That fear kept them from even touching GPL'd code, including in ways that would be completely compliant and beneficial to everyone involved.