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Mine, all mine (& theirs too)
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| The new license was rolled out today, to accompany the handy new function to
| export all blog content for use with (for example) WordPress. From now on,
| every Sun blogger has (if they choose to accept the new license) a clear,
| documented set of rights to their blogging content. Huge thanks to the team
| of people that made it happen, especially my favourite lawyer, Tiki Dare, who
| completely "gets" this stuff and without whose quiet and largely unsung help
| the open source community would be much the poorer.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/mine_all_mine_theirs_too
Recent:
Oracle To Buy Sun: Great News For Linux, Java, and Open Office. Bad News for
IBM.
http://daveshields.wordpress.com/2009/04/20/oracle-to-buy-sun-great-news-for-linux-java-and-open-office-bad-news-for-ibm/
Oracle+Sun: Good News or Bad News for Open Source?
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| Moreover, this development would fit nicely with the increasing number of
| Android developments in new contexts â netbooks, consumer devices etc. As a
| result of all this interest from across the computing spectrum, Android is
| going to become much hotter, and that will drive even faster innovation,
| development and uptake in this area. Bad news for the other Linux-based
| mobile platforms perhaps, and certainly bad news for people like Symbian and
| Microsoft.
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http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14&entryid=2114
Oracle Buys Sun: It's Official
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| Here's the press release. So they own Java and Solaris and MySQL, not to
| mention all the patents Sun pledged to use to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu when
| Microsoft began patent saber rattling, plus whatever patents Sun had that
| made Jonathan Schwartz say he had been approached to sue Linux but decided
| not to:
|
| Â Â With business down and customers leaving, we had more than a few choices
| Â Â at our disposal. We were invited by one company to sue the beneficiaries
| Â Â of open source. We declined. We could join another and sue our customers.
| Â Â That seemed suicidal.
|
| So whatever he was talking about now belongs to Oracle.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090420083210981
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