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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02May

Ubuntu Hardy Heron: Beyond the hype and into the dilemma

DateMay 2, 2008

By Bruce Byfield (Datamation)
As the Ubuntu team would undoubtedly be the first to admit, some of the credit that Hardy Heron is receiving is not due to any action on its part beyond the wish to package the latest free software...
The main place where innovation is happening rapidly seems to be in Ubuntu's efforts to balance the concept of free software with the drive toward commercialism by Canonical, Ubuntu's face in business...
Ubuntu, like any of dozens of other distributions, has been ready for the desktop for some years. Hardy Heron simply makes it incrementally more so, while still not resolving the essentially unresolvable debate of how to make free and proprietary elements co-exist. It's a debate that is far from unique to Ubuntu, but one whose ambiguities seem to be stronger with every release of that distribution.

http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/12068_3744341_1

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