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Here comes Theo in three ... two ... one ...

Posted Jul 12, 2008 23:55 UTC (Sat) by salimma (subscriber, #34460)
In reply to: Here comes Theo in three ... two ... one ... by JoeBuck
Parent article: Sun invalidates the Firestar patent

The deal shielded all upstream vendors of Red Hat, which includes the OpenBSD project (at
least as far as OpenSSH and OpenSSL are concerned). It's in no way GPL only.

(I quite agree that it's not necessarily a good deal -- one wonders if Red Hat lawyers knew
what Sun was up to, or the latter intentionally kept them in the dark) 


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Here comes Theo in three ... two ... one ...

Posted Jul 13, 2008 1:26 UTC (Sun) by endecotp (guest, #36428) [Link]

> one wonders if Red Hat lawyers knew what Sun was up to

The article goes out of its way to tell us that they did keep RedHat informed.  Which makes it
seem more peculiar to me.

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