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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 11:23 AM EDT
In the Oz land of SCO and Oracle it considered a criminal action if their
opposition with holds information in this manor but legal and normal operating
procedure for them to do so.

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Authored by: rebentisch on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 04:18 PM EDT
Why don't you ask Simon Phipps about the details?

The interoperability issue btw. relates to Amendment Article 6a of the
Parliament package to the CII directive.

Even EICTA was split on this.

Article 6a – Use of Patened Techniques
“Member States shall ensure that, wherever the use of a patented technique is
needed or a significant purpose such as ensuring conversion of the conventions
used in two diferent computer systems or networks so as to allow communication
and exchange of data content between them, such use is not consideed to be a
patent infingement"

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Was Position Paper Legal Advice?
Authored by: Ed L. on Sunday, May 20 2012 @ 09:02 PM EDT
I'm not a lawyer, but the wording appears to be specific suggestion to European Commission on possible amendment to 1991 EC Software Copyright Directive. See rebentisch post above. If this were the case, does one really believe the sole and lonely copy of this Position Paper resided upon Sun's corporate website? That no lawyers were involved? And they shredded their product after completion? Seriously?

:-)

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Real Programmers mangle their own memory.

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