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So if I distribute this on a CD with another program
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It can't say that other program must be free
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otherwise you can't distribute my software
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And then the only other part of
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the Open Source definition
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is a list of licenses that were accepted
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And the ones that we started with were the GPL
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which was actually the example for a lot of
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what's in the Open Source definition in the BSD license
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because software for BSD system pre-existed Linux
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I think the next moment that I thought
was really pivotal
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was when the database vendors flipped over
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which happened about three months sooner
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than I expected to
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and actually happened in late July early August
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commitments to do one ports from Oracle and
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and Sybase and the other key database vendors.
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[ And why was that critical? ]
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because we knew that in order for
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the open source story to be credible
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and especially in order for the Linux story
to be credible,
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we'd have to get commitments from
independent software vendors
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to do ports of their applications to these platforms
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and I was actually kind of worried
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I thought that we were in a window of vulnerability
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between the time that we announced
the open source campaign
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and the database vendors flipped over
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that was the point at which hostile action
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by Microsoft or other close-source software companies
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that was the point in which
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a serious marketing blitz might have sunk us
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but once the big database vendors flipped over
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that opened the way for other ISVs