Brian Aker Responds To RMS On Dual Licensing

krow (Brian Aker, long-time MySQL developer) writes "Richard Stallman's comments on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun left me scratching my head over his continued support of closed-source licensing around open source software. Having spent more than a decade in the MySQL community, I feel that his understanding of the dual-license model is limited, and is at odds with his advocacy of free software. For this reason, I believe his recent statements concerning it need to be addressed. By pushing for the right to turn GPL-licensed software into the heart of a proprietary business model, he is squandering an opportunity for advocacy of open source within the European Union."pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1939254/Brian-Aker-Responds-To-RMS-On-Dual-Licensing?from=rss"img src="http://developers.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=09/10/22/1939254"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/10/22/1939254/Brian-Aker-Responds-To-RMS-On-Dual-Licensing?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2wqWHWhagWjORAeHvZD4h0YnOkw/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2wqWHWhagWjORAeHvZD4h0YnOkw/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/ a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2wqWHWhagWjORAeHvZD4h0YnOkw/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/2wqWHWhagWjORAeHvZD4h0YnOkw/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/AJKoWL1PfHI" height="1" width="1"/

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