Java News Desk: Schwartz Says "Free Software Has No Pirates"

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'The software industry is going through exactly the same transition (as media companies). Seven years ago, StarOffice and Solaris, to take a couple examples of key products at Sun, were built by our own employees. The source code to both was available under restrictive licenses, but our (equivalently Pulitzer Prize winning) engineers wrote 100% of the code. With very limited input from the community. We listened to users (and their letters to the editor), certainly, but we didn't allow them to touch the code (or lay out the front page). We were in control.'

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