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Your best work for a chance at cash and prizes: The headline above is incredibly snarky. I apologize for it. But there's a serious point to be made concerning Simon Phipps' announcement of a multi-year program of cash and prizes aimed at spurring open source development around Sun-run projects. That point being your motivation....; Tags: India, Phipps, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-05
IBM's Sutor, Sun's Phipps give lukewarm reception to Microsoft patent covenants: In yesterday's post regarding Microsoft's remarkable step in the right direction (with regards to its issuance of some patent non-assertion covenants), I mentioned that silence on behalf of the normally quick-to-respond-to-such-news Bob Sutor (IBM's open source and standards veep) and Simon Phipps (Sun's chief open source officer) might have been...; Tags: Microsoft Corp., Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2006-09-14
Phipps calls for patent reform: On his personal blog, Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps who I consider a friend of this blog wrote Monday that it's time for "root and branch" patent reform.A few things to emphasize before I get into this. First, this was on Phipps' personal blog, not his Sun blog....; Tags: Phipps, patent; Blog posts 2006-08-18
Phipps explains what he really meant: Phipps explains what he really meantWhat he really meantI don't believe in objectivity or many forms of rational discourse any more. I am not surprised when people are turned off by my willingness to include anything I say in my examples. It's the case of the con man...; Tags: Phipps, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc.; Discussion threads 2006-07-01
Phipps explains what he really meant: Simon Phipps of Sun wrote today not only to complain about what we called a "scarecrow" argument but to explain what he really meant. "It was a version of Benkler's argument, that as we align our individual motivations we are able to collectively achieve what only 'the firm form' was...; Tags: Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2006-06-30

Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argument: Sun's Phipps makes a scarecrow argumentPhipps needs some cold water thrown on him.Perhaps you mean [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enchanted_Forest_Chronicles]soapy water with a little lemon juice[/url]?Everybody is wrong, I know everything and I am right - thats your attitudeSimple question - if you know so much, what are you doing sitting and writing a...; Tags: Ubuntu LTS, F/OSS, Phipps, open source, Sun Microsystems Inc., software, Even Microsoft; Discussion threads 2006-06-28
Sun: Open source is about self-interest: Sun: Open source is about self-interest$un does not get it!"The open-source community needed to look to the lessons of capitalism and capitalists, said Phipps."If $un's goal is to squeze people of money using OSS, than screw them!We should not become a tool for aiding another M$ wana be.For a refreshing...; Tags: Government, OSS, open source, Phipps, capitalist, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp.; Discussion threads 2006-06-28
GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java: Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk's James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 Debian Conference in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event's coincidental...; Tags: Java; Blog posts 2006-05-16
For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source license: There's a bit of news on the the open source license non-proliferation front. Proliferation of incompatible open source licenses has balkanized the open source software community to a point that code isn't nearly as freely shareable as some people perceive it to be. As one of his...; Tags: Simon Phipps, open source; Blog posts 2005-09-02
Clearing the air on IBM Workplace-OpenOffice.org connection: Yesterday's blog entry by Joe Brockmeier about why he found the comments reported to have been made by Sun officials to be petty politics has drawn a response from Sun's Simon Phipps as well as a clarification to a blog I wrote on the issue from Open Source...; Tags: IBM Corp., OpenOffice.org, Simon Phipps; Blog posts 2005-04-27

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GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the sky: GNOME knows why there's no Sun up in the skyNo questionKDE is my preferred UI, but picture a new user--they'll benefit immediately from GNOME's simpler interface and pure ease of use.GNOME is a well put together GUI.ThanksAnd, that is one of the messages that we need to get out. With...; Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Sun Microsystems Inc., GNOME; Discussion threads 2008-07-08
Is Sun still a bully?: It takes sharp elbows to succeed in business. Open source is not supposed to be about sharp elbows. Sun Microsystems, despite its embrace of open source as a concept, has retained its sharp elbows. This is most especially true with regard to Java. Sun...; Tags: Elbow, Sun Microsystems Inc., Programming Languages, Java, Open Source, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-12-02
Can OpenSolaris become an alternative to enterprise Linux?: Sun's "open source road map" is to make OpenSolaris a viable alternative to enterprise Linux through a simpler install package and alliancesÂ in the enterprise open source space. The featured speaker for yesterday's open source summit at the Santa Clara headquarters was Debian founder Ian Murdock, who joined...; Tags: OpenSolaris, Sun Microsystems Inc., Idea, PostgreSQL, Murdock, Linux, Open Source, Operating Systems, Software, Dana Blankenhorn; Blog posts 2007-10-16
OpenOffice won't fork -- for now: In spite of a bitter battle between Novell and Sun developers, OpenOffice won't fork â€“ at least for now. That's the consensus among several OpenOffice developers who are locked in a bitter dispute with Sun over how the open source project is governed but who nevertheless...; Tags: Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems Inc., Fork, OpenOffice.org, OpenOffice, Open Source, Office Suites, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2007-10-12
Open- and Closed-Source Services Convergence: Open- and Closed-Source Services ConvergenceFixed price and modular and limited"While I agree with Roberto that fixed-price services are the right model, it’s not specifically an open source issue."When a consulting firm uses proprietary software, its own homebrewed CMS for instance, sometimes they use it to lock the client into continued...; Tags: Outsourcing, open source, content management system, Fixed Price; Discussion threads 2007-07-31
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
New Ubuntu ("Feisty Fawn"), Murdock's gig at Sun, Red Hat's Linux for "masses"; Desktop Linux marches on?: Its a busy news day for Linux. Thanks to digg, I ended-up reading this very impressive hands-on look at the latest beta release of Feisty Fawn (a.k.a. Ubuntu Linux 7.04). A stable release of Ubuntu Linux 7.04 is set for release in April 2007. According to Eugenia Loli-Queru...; Tags: UNIX, Operating systems, OPEN SOURCE, Red Hat Inc., Linux, Ubuntu, Sun Microsystems Inc., desktop Linux, desktop; Blog posts 2007-03-19
Sun becomes a patron of the Free Software Foundation: Suns honeymoon with the Richard Stallmans Free Software Foundation continued this week as the company became a patron of the FSF. Corporate patrons "affiliate themselves with the FSF and the GNU project" by providing financial support, according to the FSF web site, but the FSF "does not endorse the activities"...; Tags: Sun, Community, Java, Licenses, General; Blog posts 2007-02-27
Given latest in OO-XML vs. ODF, Microsoft must reconsider its support for ODF: There has been a flurry of recent activity in the battle between Office Open XML (OO-XML) and the OpenDocument Format ODF that could be swinging the tide in the latters global favor. The two are competing formats for the storage and retrieval of the different documents created by word processors,...; Tags: General, Legal, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Office 2.0, OO-XML, OpenDocument Format; Blog posts 2007-02-07
Eclipse joins Java Community Process (JCP): Its been almost a year since I called for Eclipse to join Suns Java Community Process JCP organization, and almost three years since Sun suggested closer ties in an open letter to Eclipse. But today it finally happened: Eclipse joined JCP. Eclipse Director Mike Milinkovich writes:There are some who are...; Tags: General, Eclipse, Java, NetBeans, Community, Sun, JCP; Blog posts 2007-01-11