From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JFhND-0001KP-RI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:54:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 81949E0B63; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:54:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pfepb.post.tele.dk (pfepb.post.tele.dk [195.41.46.236]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D64ACE0B62 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:54:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [83.89.18.251] (x1-6-00-0b-6a-92-4c-08.k433.webspeed.dk [83.89.18.251]) by pfepb.post.tele.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58276A50014 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:54:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <479014CC.60908@herkild.dk> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:54:04 +0100 From: Kristian Poul Herkild User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071122) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo on the Sales block? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c7e5bc67-a130-4453-8bf6-7d8720a7a4be X-Archives-Hash: f2e1f56d397ce17cf2c95aee904d430d James skrev: > I only ask because Sun just paid > a billion dollars for MySQL.... > > http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/16/sun-mysql_1.html > > How is it that Open Source is for sale? > > GPL? > > > Is gentoo next? > > > James > > > FLOSS != Gratis. There is no problem in buying either Open Source or Free Software. FLOSS is not against Capitalism you know. It is merely against MS EULA's ;) -kristian herkild -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list