On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:04:00PM -0500, Joel T Schneider wrote: >My own understanding is: > >1. The plan to relicense GFS has been in the works for a while. >2. Sistina plans to generate revenue by selling licenses for GFS and > related software, training, etc. Presumably, this will make the VC > happy, as they feel a services oriented business wouldn't "scale." >3. Sistina currently has no intention of working to include GFS in the > standard Linux kernel. They may have plans to port it to *BSD and/or > NT, and the license change may be related to these plans. > >The above perceptions are based on conversations I had during the process >of interviewing for a job at Sistina earlier this year. At the time, I >was somewhat taken aback; the main reason I wanted to work there was >because (I thought) it was an "open source" company. We're a company that makes software. Some of which just happens to be GPL, some of which is not. -- Ben Lutgens Sistina Software Inc. What's the difference between root and God ? God doesn't think that he is root. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20010901/37dbe26e/attachment.pgp