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[News] Sun's Latest Open Source Controversy Dissected

  • Subject: [News] Sun's Latest Open Source Controversy Dissected
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 23:14:09 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Winners and losers in Sun's OpenDS spat

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| Bruce Perens, one of the founders of the Open Source Initiative (OSI), 
| primary author of the Open Source Definition and a project lead for the 
| Debian GNU/Linux, told Reg Dev that an open-source project's "owners" are the 
| copyright holders. "If the developers are applying another sense of the term 
| to the project, they are probably confused.    
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/12/05/sun_opends_defining_terms/


Days ago:

Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner
says

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| Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source 
| directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former 
| owners and creators of the project.  
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news

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