Re: [vnit] Sun shares its technology with =?UTF-8?Q?Vietnam=E2=80=99s?= open source community

Isn't that a old story ? And they don't do that only for Viet Nam...

OpenSolaris is around for some times now....
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/

Java is going open source we know that for a while yet
http://www.sun.com/software/opensource/java/

I'm pretty much tired to see this issue of Free and Open Source Software
"tied" to copyright, people may think that FOSS is without copyright.
What people need to know is FOSS (through the GNU Public Licence) take
the copyright concept to make sure that the software licenced under its
term will always remain free (like freedom): to copy, modify, use and
redistribute.

Le dimanche 27 mai 2007 à 15:36 +0700, Vern Weitzel a écrit :
> http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2007/05/699418/
>
> Sun shares its technology with Vietnam’s open source community
> 10:27' 27/05/2007 (GMT+7)
>
> VietNamNet Bridge – Sun Microsystems has opened the source codes of its
> operating systems JavaSE, NetBeans, Solaris and is providing them free of charge
> for the community of IT developers of Vietnam.
>
> Naveen Asrani, Manager in charge of developers in Asia-Pacific of Sun
> Microsystems, announced this information at the 3rd Sun Developer Days in Hanoi
> on May 24. A similar event was held in HCM City today, May 25.
>
> Having come to Vietnam three times within the past 18 months, Mr Naveen Asrani
> commented that the community of Vietnamese developers had the fastest
> development speed in the region.
>
> Besides professional programmers, Sun has also introduced its open source codes
> to universities of Vietnam like the Technology University of the National
> University, the Hanoi University of Technology, the IT University and the
> International University of the National University.
>
> “Our goal is providing tools for programmers to create products to sell to
> users. The third users will have to use hardware and support software of Sun and
> we earn profit from those users,” Mr Naveen Asrani said.
>
> While software copyrights are being tightened in Vietnam, this is considered an
> opportunity for Vietnamese programmers to use open source codes to create
> software products without violating copyrights.
> (Source: Nhan Dan)
>
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