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| Authored by: nb on Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 03:33 PM EST |
Breaking news: The vote in JURI on the software patents issue has resulted in
the best possible outcome: The process will be restarted with a new "first
reading". (My source for this news is a phone call from Brussels which
obviously I cannot link to, but I'm sure the press releases will come soon.)
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| Authored by: NetArch on Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 04:22 PM EST |
| Ha!!! Too funny! Seems Microsoft is up to its ears in iPods...
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, February 02 2005 @ 05:23 PM EST |
This is not necessarily a bad thing as such for Sun Customers. They will
benefit from having all thier software exposed so that if there is a problem,
they can see what is happening, and can get it fixed either by themselves or by
other Sun users. Likewise there are a number of Sun system users who would
dearly like to make improvements for both their own use and for use by other Sun
user's group members.
However what will be missing will be the synergy of merging Linux and Solaris,
the two operating systems borrowing the best parts of the other to obtain some
really brilliant breakthroughs.
It is understandable that some people will be disappointed that instead of
getting a space craft they got a glider.
However remember this is a free world. If you want to work on Solaris you can.
If you want to work on Linux you can. You just have to be careful if you want
to do both, and it won't be as much fun, and some people in charge of Linux may
have to do a careful job of filtering changes from people working on Solaris to
make sure that Solaris patents don't creep into Linux. But that problem is no
different than it has ever been with anyone who works on both propriatary and
open source code.
In the long run, it will be the open source community at large freely deciding
what they want to do. It is understandable that people adhering to the GPL
license are disappointed that Solaris code will not be available. But MS code
hasn't been available either, and Linux runs circles at multiples the speed of
light around Windows.
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| Authored by: Simon G Best on Thursday, February 03 2005 @ 12:58 AM EST |
Have I missed Schwartz' answers to the Groklaw questions, or hasn't he
answered, yet? I'm beginning to wonder if he geuninely intended to take part in
that, or was just taking it as an opportunity to get an idea, from the
questions, of what matters to FOSSers and how FOSSers perceive
Sun.
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FOSS IS political. It's just that the political
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| Authored by: Juggler on Thursday, February 03 2005 @ 12:43 PM EST |
To me this seems to be more of a preemptive move AGAINST Linux than anything.
If I'm a FOSS developer (I'm not), adding functionality to Linux seems to be
tougher. I now have to worry about not looking at any Solaris code. I'm sure
there's some nice functionality that Solaris has that Linux does not.
What happens when said functionality is added to Linux. I'm sure the Legal IP
Beagles at Sun will do a code review ala SCO, and say, "Linux has taken our
IP!"
Maybe I'm being harsh, but this appears to be exceptionally self-serving of
Sun.
Am I way off base?
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