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- UNIX - Let's get together and feel all right
- People have often accused me of dreaming too much and not having my thoughts anchored in reality, particularly in this world of multi-billion dollar technology companies and big business, when huge amounts of money are at stake and every competitor is vying for the top spot. In...
- Tags: GPL, Sun Microsystems Inc., IBM Corp., CDDL, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Sun Solaris, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-04-18
- Sun demurs from adopting GPL v3 for OpenSolaris, keeps CDDL only
- I wonder what that was all about. I mean the last dozen months of Sun Microsystems seemingly interested in and participating in the definitions of GPL v3, only to come out now that GPL v3 is defined to say they will stick to CDDL for OpenSolaris and for now GPL...
- Tags: Windows, Sun Microsystems, Software Infrastructure, Red Hat, Patents, Open Source, Microsoft, Linux, Intellectual Property, IBM, GPL, Enterprise Java, Apache
- Blog posts 2007-06-30
- The CDDL example
- The CDDL exampleNow, if we could just replace the GPL with this or the FreeBSD licence...then maybe development would extend from the community to the commercial much further with respect to Linux etc.Communism, sorry, socialism never worked in Mother Russia and it sure doesn't do a damn thing for open...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., convergence, CDDL, GPL, LGPL
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- Greg Stein: Three is enough
- Greg Stein: Three is enoughCDDLIt's CDDL, not CDLL.fixedTypo in the poll fixed, thanks.
- Tags: Greg Stein, CDDL
- Discussion threads 2006-11-06
- Sun names likely license for open-source Java
- Sun names likely license for open-source JavaSounds odd... or dangerous"Novell has created an open-source version of Microsoft's .Net"Sounds like a John Doe opened indpendent mint and now produces dollar bills.The CDDL is outstanding...I hope that is what they go with.Not really open source version of .NetIt is not really open...
- Tags: .NET, Development tools, Middleware, Sun Microsystems Inc., Mono, C#, open source, Microsoft .NET, CDDL
- Discussion threads 2006-10-26
- Too late for federated identity?
- Sun has released its Single Sign On technology under the CDDL, giving it the name Open Source Single Sign On Open SSO, with a roadmap that would make it a federated identity solution across multiple sites. The code is based on its Java System Access Manager. The question I have...
- Tags: CDDL, identity federation
- Blog posts 2006-08-29
- Schwartz: OpenSolaris, Niagara could go GPL3
- In his latest blog, Sun COO and president Jonathan Schwartz takes a shot at Dell and then gets down to GPL3 business: With that volume building, you've no doubt seen that HP has joined ranks with IBM to support Solaris on their x64 platforms - creating...
- Tags: CDDL, Sun Solaris, GPL 3
- Blog posts 2006-01-31
- Sun makes Java free
- Sun makes Java freeSun is on the right track and it bodes ill for Linux.Not that Linux is bad, but Solaris is clearly better and it is not encumbered with the GPL.Now all the Linux supporters are gonna flame me for that statement but that doesn't change anything. With...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., CDDL, Sun Solaris, OSS, GPL, Java
- Discussion threads 2005-12-01
- Linux Licensing: barriers to developers
- There are dozens of different software license structures ranging from the legal structures of the GPL and Chinese government policy on the one hand to nextgen DRM and Microsoft's end user licenses on the other. The GPL is a beautifully designed implementation of a social idea in the context...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, UNIX, Intellectual property, Operating systems, barrier, Linux, GPL, developer, CDDL, Microsoft Corp., OpenSolaris
- Blog posts 2005-10-05
- Sun retires one open-source license
- Sun retires one open-source licenseScrap the CDDL? No way!It may be the best mix between propratary and open source available, why would anyone want to scrap it? (Other than the ones that think everything should be free.)Indeed...This is a sad day for open source. Not only is this...
- Tags: CDDL, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-09-04
- BTL's Quote of the Day
- Should we have quotes of the day here on Between the Lines? As I research my stories, I come across all sorts of interesting quotes (on the phone, in the blogosphere, etc.). Let me know because some quotes are excellent jump off points for entire conversations. For...
- Tags: CDDL
- Blog posts 2005-07-19
- Computer Associate's cunning plan for the CDDL
- Computer Associate's cunning plan for the CDDLAnti-GPL rhetoric cease? BWHAHAHAAHAHAHYeah, right.McNealy already showed that he wants to be able to claim GPL code as his own, and that's with him already having the CDDL.As long as there is high quality GPL code available, there will be companies griping against the...
- Tags: OPEN SOURCE, computer, CDDL, GPL, Computer Associate
- Discussion threads 2005-04-08
- Computer Associate's cunning plan for the CDDL
- Computer Associates wants to adapt Sun's?Common Development and Distribution License into an industry standard.CA is talking to both IBM and Sun about this. Sam Greenblatt of CA right wants to turn the CDDL into a template that will retain the complexity of current commercial open source licensing schemes while...
- Tags: CDDL
- Blog posts 2005-04-08
- Sun gives way more than an inch, but open source advocates want the whole mile
- Somewhere within Sun, the executives are saying "Whattayagotta do to get some respect around here? We give and give and give and they still want more." The "they" of course is the open source community. The last "give" was the 1600 patents that Sun appears to have promised...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Blog posts 2005-01-31
- Will Sun's 1600 patents suck the life out of Linux?
- Now that people in blogosphere and open-source circles have had two days to let Sun's OpenSolaris announcement sink in, the commentary is starting to show up. But before touching on that, first a quick review of what happened.Under the name OpenSolaris, Sun officially announced an open source version of...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., open source
- Blog posts 2005-01-27
- Sun license gets open-source nod
- Sun license gets open-source nodI can't see the FSF accepting this licence......as a true free source licence. And as such I doubt the CDDL will ever be as accepted as an open source licence by the people who drive the movement.That isn't to say, however, that you can't enjoy some...
- Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, Servers, Solaris Kernel, Open source BSD, GPL, Sun Solaris, Linux, Sun Microsystems Inc., open source, CDDL
- Discussion threads 2005-01-19
- Is CDDL open source?
- Joe has all the facts down on the Common Development & Distribution License CDDL Sun has proposed for Solaris 10.What he doesn't do (and I'm not going to do it either) is answer the key question -- is this an open source license at all?Sun insists it is. Sun says...
- Tags: open source
- Blog posts 2004-12-06
- Sun's new open source license
- Details are beginning to emerge about Sun's license for Solaris, presumed to be the Common Development and Distribution License CDDL that is being discussed on the OSI list. As many expected, the license will likely be incompatible with the GNU General Public License GPL:Like the MPL, the CDDL is not...
- Tags: GPL
- Blog posts 2004-12-06
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- I swear, this is not another Unixfication post
- Photo: Jeff Bonwick and Linus Torvalds I was resolved not to write another Unixfication story until I had more concrete news of Sun and Linus actually working together, and filed it away under "Maybe". Like many of the speculative peices I write, it...
- Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- What's wrong at OpenSolaris
- What's wrong at OpenSolarisAgreed as to gaols etcHowever.. look at junknstuff's response above to see how the MS community has chosen to interpret what's going on.Now ask yourself: wouldn't everyone - especially Sun - have been better off if Sun had spent the money bringing Linux along instead of...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Solaris, Linux
- Discussion threads 2008-05-15
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