Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Ian Schwartz is the President and Chief Operating Officer of Sun Microsystems and is on the board of directors for Dorado Corporation. He has math and economics degrees from Wesleyan University.

Unsourced

• Economies and nations need intellectual property to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. I've talked to developing nations, representatives from academia and manufacturing companies that had begun to incorporate GPL software into their products, then...found they had an obligation to deliver their IP back into the world.
  • On the GNU General Public License

• Imagine a developing nation that elects to use free software in the construction of its intellectual property and then finds that it has a rather predatory obligation to give back all the intellectual property to the wealthiest nation in the world that happens to be the author of the GPL.