20 Dec
2016
20 Dec
'16
9:15 p.m.
On Dec 20, 2016, at 2:05 PM, Stephen Russell srussell705@gmail.com wrote:
java was OS fifteen years ago just like python. Oracle bought Sun 10 years ago.
It may have been "open source", but it was never free software. Free software lets you do with it whatever you like. For example, if Oracle somehow bought the Python Software Foundation (not very likely), nothing would prevent you from taking your copy of Python and making your own fork. There is simply zero possibility of it ever becoming tied up by some entity.
"Open source" doesn't mean anything if you can't use that source for your own needs.
-- Ed Leafe