O'pain Software Foundation: (3) relationship to GNU & openness

[Roger B.A. Klorese]

In article <10344 at ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> ekrell at hector (Eduardo Krell) writes:
>In article <358 at mipseast.mips.COM> rogerk at mipseast.mips.COM (Roger B.A. Klorese) writes:
>>Yes, but when it was started, AT&T wasn't an owner of Sun...
>And it still isn't. AT&T owns a little over 7% of Sun's stocks. That can
>hardly be called ownership. 

If it owns *one* share, then it is AN owner, which is what I said.  7%
(plus, as I recal, a board seat) can have quite a bit of influence, 
especially when AT&T is contractually committed to being able to own 
20%.
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