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Is OpenSolaris in hot water?
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| Here's how it works: Novell owns Unix's IP (intellectual property). SCO sold
| Unix's IP to Sun. Sun then included some Unix IP into Solaris. Finally, Sun
| open sourced Solaris as OpenSolaris. Sounds like trouble, doesn't it?
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| While Sun's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps described the line of
| logic above as "sheer speculation," others see a major potential legal
| problem for Sun. However, analysts, lawyers and open source leaders also
| agreed that it's unlikely Novell would ever choose to make trouble for Sun.
| Novell, however, has not commented on its intentions despite several attempts
| to get the Linux company's take on the issue.
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http://www.linux.com/feature/142406
Someone who spoke to Hovsepian told me that IBM, Microsoft and potentially
Oracle too may have been involved in the {Novell Collusion}^TM, a major
component of which was Intellectual Monopolies (so-called 'IP').
If Microsoft takes over Novell, which is might, then more people will wake up.
Microsoft could then carry on with SCO's lawsuit and try to subvert Linux. It
already replaces GPL software with the MIT licence (Mono projects like
Banshee, plus copyrights).
Recent:
Does OpenSolaris Matter?
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| I'm not sure.
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| Sun first announced OpenSolaris in 2005 but they keep finding ways to
| announce 'first releases'. Yesterday was one such release.
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http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2008/05/does-opensolaris-matter.html
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