Jeff Gould

July 1, 2009

Oracle, do the right thing, set Java free

To nearly everyone’s surprise, the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division has thrown a last-minute banana peel in front of Larry Ellison’s bid to buy Sun and Java.
Oracle is about to acquire Sun’s monumental collection of Java intellectual property rights. This includes the patents and copyrights to the code embodied in the Java platform editions (EE, SE and ME) and in dozens of critical Java standards (JSRs) associated with the platforms, as well as the all-important test suites (JCKs and TCKs) that determine what software can claim compatibility with these standards and thus receive these IP rights.
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Java community to wrest some concessions from the new owner of Java before the deal is set in stone.

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Microsoft security alert program sets example for infrastructure vendors

DateAugust 12, 2008

By Brian Prince (eWeek)
When Microsoft announced plans Aug. 5 to share information on vulnerabilities with security software vendors as part of the Microsoft Active Protections Program, the company underscored what could be a shift to a new era of cooperation in the name of security.
In light of the largely successful coordinated release of patches for the much-publicized domain name system (DNS) flaw, it is time for infrastructure vendors to embrace cross-vendor cooperation.

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