Ubuntu 8.04 Is Ready to Take On Windows

[Francis Earl]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 09:35 +0200, Clayton wrote:
> >  > Ubuntu is great, but the FREE model does not make much money.
> >
> >  Ubuntu/Canonical aren't closed to the possibility of including
> >  proprietary stuff, and Red Hat is a multi billion dollar company SOLELY
> >  from free software... you sell support, not software.
> 
> Sun is a 14 billion dollar company, and they are primarily focused on
> open source (OpenOffice.org, Open Solaris, Java, some of the Sun
> hardware is even open source), ... seems to be working well for them.


For what it's worth, OpenOffice.org and OpenSolaris are both not GPL
compatible at all. In GPL software, the writer of the code retains
copyright on the code, for the official builds of OpenOffice and
OpenSolaris - via the CDDL - you must hand over all contributions to
Sun, and they then own your code. I think you'll agree that is unfair.

Ubuntu and most other distros however use the code from go-oo.org which
is the GPL build, this is where things like macro support is being
maintained also - in fact most features that are in demand and locking
people into MS Office are being maintained in that branch.

This has been called Proprietary Open Source by some.
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