Sun supper offer appeals to Torvalds
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| In the latest word in a peculiarly public interchange, Linux leader
| Linus Torvalds appears inclined to take up Sun Microsystems Chief
| Executive Jonathan Schwartz on his offer for dinner.
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http://news.com.com/8300-10784_3-7-0.html?categoryId=9702239
They could work /together/, hopefully.
Related:
Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Talks Patents
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| The open-source community is very vocal about software patents.
| Sun owns lots of them. Isn't that a contradiction for Sun to
| claim to be an open-source community member yet own software patents?
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| Not at all. Most companies engaging in free and open-source
| software hold software patents--even Red Hat. If you neglect
| patent filing, you risk various perils including others filing
| for patents on the same ideas and being unable to trade
| portfolios when an aggressor comes calling. What matters is
| not whether you hold them but what you do with them.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2135483,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
Sun's X64-Based Streaming Server Runs on Linux
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| The Linux used in the system is one that Kealia created for itself
| based on an undisclosed commercial distribution with some real-time
| hooks in it to boost the responsiveness of the system. Over the long
| haul, you can bet that Sun will port the Streaming System software
| to Solaris.
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http://www.itjungle.com/breaking/bn042607-story01.html
Sun's CEO cites OS as differentiator
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| Oracle's and Microsoft's moves to accommodate Linux show how
| important it is to have an operating system, said Sun
| Microsystems President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz, promoting
| Sun's own Solaris OS.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1919211241;fp;2;fpid;1
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