Sun Microsystems sells out for 7.4 billion to Oracle - Polidicks

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358101]I don't get all the hype behind open-source. What makes you think that you're entitled to free shit? [/QUOTE] You don't understand what open source is. At all.

shit we're fucked. good bye openoffice and all the shit that java made :frown:

[QUOTE=Zeke129;20358439]You don't understand what open source is. At all.[/QUOTE] They give you the source-code for free.

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358478]They give you the source-code for free.[/QUOTE] They post the source code in the public domain so everyone can contribute. It has nothing to do with "being entitled to free stuff".

[QUOTE=Zeke129;20358491]They post the source code in the public domain so everyone can contribute. It has nothing to do with "being entitled to free stuff".[/QUOTE] Oh, so you have to PAY for this source code?

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358506]Oh, so you have to PAY for this source code?[/QUOTE] No, but you can modify and then sell it if you want.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;20358520]No, but you can modify and then sell it if you want.[/QUOTE] Yes, but nobody ever does. And PLUS that makes people want to use the same old boring source code that everybody else uses.

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358551]Yes, but nobody ever does. And PLUS that makes people want to use the same old boring source code that everybody else uses.[/QUOTE] You're a consumer, not a developer. You don't "use" the source code. You just use the binaries, making it absolutely no different than running software that isn't open-source.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;20358700]You're a consumer, not a developer. You don't "use" the source code. You just use the binaries, making it absolutely no different than running software that isn't open-source.[/QUOTE] I meant the developers use the same platform as everybody else, stifling creativity.

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358723]I meant the developers use the same platform as everybody else, stifling creativity.[/QUOTE] Yeah, because thousands of people around the world working on software are going to be less creative than a company run by one man. Stop posting because you're [i]really[/i] bad at it.

[QUOTE=Zeke129;20358737]Yeah, because thousands of people around the world working on software are going to be less creative than a company run by one man. Stop posting because you're [I]really[/I] bad at it.[/QUOTE] How many linux distros exists in the world?

[QUOTE=pentium;20343489]Solaris! My beautiful Solaris! First it was SGI and now my beloved Sun! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo![/QUOTE] AFAIK, Oracle is still planning to develop OpenSolaris. I don't know if plain old Solaris is dead, or if Sun killed it with OpenSolaris or what. [editline]01:26AM[/editline] [QUOTE=Vexont;20338169]Quoting for epic. Also what the hell, I didn't expect this at all.[/QUOTE] This was announced months ago. It's been held up in the EU courts since then.

[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;20358754]How many linux distros exists in the world?[/QUOTE] You already made a whole fucking thread about your Open Source woes. Keep it in there.

@ proboards troll: Open-source, to me (as a developer), is just a lack of shitty restrictions that prevent people from learning from, using, & improving your work. I don't find myself asking myself why I'd want to open up my code - I ask myself why I'd ever want to close it off (and the answer is - if you want to be the exclusive distributor of your commercial software, you'd make it proprietary).

Oracle is becoming a monopoly now. I know some folks who don't like that Sun did this.

I foresee a bad future,

[QUOTE=jjsullivan;20335466] Could this be the end of all of our favorite open source software?[/QUOTE] They won't kill any of the opensource stuff because people will just fork and leave.