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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun Should Loosen Up
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| All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite frank
| with you, we screwed up. We alienated a large group of open source developers
| by the attitudes we had of the community back then.
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| No kidding. I remember sharing a cab in Manhattan at LinuxWorld in 2002 with
| several Sun folks and hearing the exchange they had about Red Hat and the
| open source development community. Needless to say, the statements were far
| from positive. The thrust of their point was that Red Hat claimed to be all
| good and open source, but the Linux vendor was actually more proprietary than
| most people thought, and Red Hat's vendors complained mightily about it (or
| so these guys claimed).
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| No, I won't pick on Sun's motives. I think it's the execution that's
| off-kilter. The company must learn to let go a little bit and let the open
| source ecology proceed naturally. In the short term, Sun might lose a little
| bit of advantage in the market, but long term, it is has a better shot at
| success.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3756666
Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom
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| Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube
| users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing
| Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a
| judge ruled Wednesday.
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html
As the FSF says, none of these big companies can be trusted. Unless it's free
software and runs on your own PC or server, you're sensitive to abuse.
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