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:ZDNet: Will Sun's 1600 Patents Suck the Life Out of Linux?
ZDNet: Will Sun's 1600 Patents Suck the Life Out of Linux?
Jan 29, 2005, 05 :00 UTC (9 Talkback[s]) (10754 reads)

(Other stories by David Berlind)

"During the announcement, both Sun chairman and CEO Scott McNealy and the company's executive vice president of software John 'Johnny-L' Loiacano characterized the CDDL as a license that allays open source licensing confusion by removing ambiguities and 'cleaning up' the licensing language. In the end, McNealy concluded, 'We're committed to one word and that's sharing.'

"But in addition to having introduced perhaps even more ambiguity into an already ambiguous environment (more on that in my analysis of the transcribed text below), will Sun's announcement further compartmentalize an already compartmentalized open source community? Read on..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
Who cares, SUN is a non-player these day ...   Who CARES what SUN does   
Brent R Brian
Jan 29, 2005, 05:18:28
 
ZD-Net would love nothing more than for  ...   ZD-Net Wishes.... Ode to ZD-Net   
Nicholas Donovan
Jan 29, 2005, 05:44:22
 
GrokLaw has a story about flaws in the C ...   When pigs fly...   
GreyGeek
Jan 29, 2005, 06:02:20
 
M$, Sun, SCO or any one cant do anything ...   Will Those Media B.... Shut UP   
Sancar Saran
Jan 29, 2005, 09:19:51
 
Will Suns latest twist have an impact. D ...   No impact.   
Bilbo
Jan 29, 2005, 12:57:32
 
 Will Suns latest twist have an impact.  ...   Re: No impact.   
David D. Huff Jr.
Jan 29, 2005, 19:20:07
 
The pending release of Solaris under the ...   Cynical ploy by SUN   
smallchange
Jan 30, 2005, 06:02:13
 
bah, let time tell, like always. On the  ...   "suck the Life out of" ... :))   
R.L.
Jan 30, 2005, 13:54:20
 
It's a lot easier to write accuratel ...   Kooky Ideas About Portage   
C. Whitman
Jan 31, 2005, 20:42:40
 
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