A discussion of hybrid open source and proprietary licensing models.

[Marshall Van Alstyne <marshall AT MIT.EDU>]

Rob, this was a helpful post. Thx. In addition, I found one article from 
inside Sun's legal counsel pretty interesting.  This lists many of the 
business reasons sun has considered for open source and the GPL in particular.

Copyright (c) 2002 Texas Intellectual Property Law Section Texas
Intellectual Property Journal, Spring, 2002, 10 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 349,
13898 words, ARTICLE: Open Source Licensing: Virus or Virtue?, By Christian H.
Nadan

I've just moved offices so my papers are in boxes but if I can get my hands 
on my notes, in the next week or so I'll post a summary.

MVA

At 11:07 AM 8/27/2004, Rob Myers wrote:
> Useful distinctions drawn and interesting conclusions reached by Sun 
> Microsystems:
>
> http://www.sys-con.com/java/46131.cfm
>
> The idea that distros are like publications of gathered content is the 
> reverse of an idea I've been pushing to friends in Open Content for a 
> while now. Editorial style and content is the added value that makes it 
> worth paying for (f|F)ree content.
>
> This stance is interesting because it isn't focussing on getting a "more 
> commercial" license or on containing projects within a corporation, but it 
> is very much focussed on providing a compelling value proposition to 
> consumers and making a profit.
>
> Slashdot discussion, beware usual signal-to-noise ratio :-) :
>
> http://slashdot.org/articles/04/08/27/135258.shtml?tid=102&tid=117&tid=187&tid=1
>
> - Rob.
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