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A world ruled by Apple
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| As someone who is no fan of software patents (approbrium for which seems
| selectively applied among those who wished a sinkhole had spontaneously
| opened beneath Redmond sometime in the past 20 years), my personal opinion is
| that Jobs was as right to borrow from XEROX as Gates was to borrow from Jobs.
| Ideas are like a pyramid, and pharoah Jobs may have supplied a few stones
| during its construction, but he built on stacks placed by others before him.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/carroll/?p=1850
And then there's Sun:
DTrace vs SystemTap, Redux
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| Three years ago come August, O’Reilly’s Nat Torkington, interviewing Sun’s
| Jonathan Schwartz, pressed the CEO on the issues of patents generally and
| DTrace patents specifically.
|
| Torkington’s question? “So if the Linux kernel were to implement DTrace, Sun
| wouldn’t employ the patents against them?”
|
| Schwartz’ answer? “Knock yourself out.”
|
| That was 2005. Fast forward to 2008. As one of the DTrace engineers has
| noted, Paul Fox is taking Schwartz up on that challenge.
|
| [...]
|
| One answer, at least, we have. While many would probably argue that a DTrace
| port to Linux would be disastrous for Solaris and OpenSolaris - that DTrace
| was one the reasons the CDDL license was originally selected for the latter
| project, in face - the engineers that built it appear to be standing ready to
| help, should anyone be inclined to ask.
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http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2008/07/01/dtrace-vs-systemtap-redux/
Sun has just bought a company (MySQL) which is against s/w patents.
Recent:
For a few dollars more
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| Since David Axmark and I started to work on MySQL we also took a strong stand
| against software patents. MySQL AB have been sponsoring several efforts to
| prevent software patents in Europa.
|
| Now David and I are continuing to do this outside of MySQL AB.
|
| [...]
|
| If you are a philanthropist and if you care about open source software and
| don't have a love for the current patent system, I encourage you to join us
| in sponsoring Patent Lens. You can also try to get your company to sponsor.
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http://monty-says.blogspot.com/2008/06/for-few-dollars-more.html
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