Q & A from Sun's Worldwide Education and Research Conference
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| Scott McNealy: I think the best way to ward it off is to get open source that
| has an indemnification strategy behind it. We [at Sun] work very hard and
| spend a lot of money before we open source code. We know who the mommy, the
| daddy is of every line of code -- we have the kennel papers! We have prior
| art, we have a complete dossier on every line of code that we write, so that
| when we end up in a court of law in front of a judge we can say, "No, we
| didn't rip that off, here's the prior art, here's who wrote it..." And then
| we also have the ability, if NetApp comes at us we can go back at them with
| $14K. It didn't take us long to basically say defensively, "Every one of your
| products steps on a big chunk of our IP." And that will hopefully warn the
| next troll that maybe they'd better not come after us. And we have 5.5
| billion dollars of cash in the bank, if a peer troll comes after us. People
| can safely share around our open source communities, knowing that there are
| no WTO infractions, and all the rest of it.
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http://campustechnology.com/articles/59744/
MacForge.net now has over 50,000 Mac open source projects
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| ...MacForge Mac open source project index now has over 50,000 projects. In
| 2005, MacForge.net was created for not only the experienced open source user,
| but to introduce the Mac technical community to the array of projects
| available
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http://www.macsimumnews.com/index.php/archive/macforgenet_now_has_over_50000_mac_open_source_projects/
Recent:
MySQL CEO: it's tough for private open source firms
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| "As soon as the deal closed we immediately secured a big deal with a major
| European national police agency," said Mickos, now SVP database products at
| Sun. "Key to them choosing MySQL was that we are now part of a much larger
| public corporation. The deal wouldn't have happened when we were private."
|
| [...]
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| Downloads of the firm's free, open source database have accelerated too, from
| around 50,000 a day before the deal was announced to around 60,000 per day
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| now - 67,000 copies were downloaded on Monday.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2008/03/mysql_ceo_its_t.html
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