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internetnews.com: Did Sun’s GPL Move Cost it a Major Talent?

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AP
Andy Patrizio
Dec 9, 2006

“Did Sun Microsystems’ decision to adopt the GNU General Public
License (GPL) cost the company one of its top talents? That’s what
a lot of people have been wondering in recent weeks.

“As most every Java programmer might know by now, Sun decided to
adopt the GNU General Public License v2 as its license of choice
for the open sourcing of its Java language…”

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Andy Patrizio

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