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Simon Phipps: Last Day At Sun

[Posted March 9, 2010 by ris]

Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun, reminisces about some achievements during his tenure. "Got some of the most important software in the computer industry released under Free licenses that guarantee software freedom for people who rely on them, regardless of who owns the copyrights. Unix, Java, key elements of Linux, the SPARC chip and much more have been liberated."

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Posted Mar 9, 2010 19:19 UTC (Tue) by joey (subscriber, #328) [Link]

Url seems to be http://webmink.com/2010/03/08/sundown/

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Posted Mar 9, 2010 19:24 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

That would be helpful, wouldn't it...not quite sure what happened here, but I've added the link. Sorry for the confusion.

Well done Simon

Posted Mar 9, 2010 19:23 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

Great work.