McNealy on message (News.com)

McNealy on message (News.com)

Posted Jun 28, 2005 2:53 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: McNealy on message (News.com) by sbergman27
Parent article: McNealy on message (News.com)

> It's the cross-pollination of *ideas* that really counts.

Well, maybe, but not with OpenSolaris and Linux. Remember, the licence for 1,600 Sun patents is for OpenSolaris code *only*. So, taking "ideas" from there and putting them into Linux is a slippery slope.

I know that Sun said that they won't sue open source folk (i.e. you and me), but that's not the point. Linux is backed by IBM and HP, people with deep pockets that Sun would love to squeeze for a few bucks. They would also love for Red Hat to disapper off the face of this Earth...

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