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Re: [Cc-bizcom] And Now Sun, Too

From: "Marshall W. Van Alstyne" <marshall AT MIT.EDU>
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Subject: Re: [Cc-bizcom] And Now Sun, Too
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 09:41:30 -0500

At 05:09 AM 1/26/2005, Rob Myers wrote:

Sun release 1,600 patents through CDDL:

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-01/sunflash.20050125.2.html

Apparently they will be the biggest contributor of Open Source code on the planet once they release Open Solaris.

This is great news. The irony is that although they may be the biggest contributor, having done this after IBM, this looks like a "me too" decision rather than a forward thinking initiative. Wish they'd done this sooner.

MVA

[Cc-bizcom] And Now Sun, Too, Rob Myers, 01/26/2005
- Re: [Cc-bizcom] And Now Sun, Too, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, 01/31/2005