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[News] Sun Microsystems Brings Us GPL-licensed Processors, Free Software Developer

  • Subject: [News] Sun Microsystems Brings Us GPL-licensed Processors, Free Software Developer
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:22:03 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
Sun Opens Up UltraSPARC T2 Core  

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| Sun Microsystems is expanding its open source program around its SPARC 
| processors with the announcement Tuesday that it would provide the OpenSPARC 
| T2 RTL (register transfer level) processor design to the open source 
| community under the GPL license.   
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3715726

cation developer day highlights importance of open source

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| A Sun Developer Day was also held in Cairo, Egypt, where more than 600 
| software developers from the across the country attended. This was one of the 
| most successful developer conferences ever to be held in Egypt where the 
| president of the Egyptian Java Users Group community attended and presented.   
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http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/219805

Sun Microsystems offers incentives for open source developers

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| Sun Microsystems today unveiled a program that offers prize money as 
| incentives for open source developers to come up with new technologies that  
| Sun can put to use. 
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sun_Microsystems_offers_incentives_for_open_source_developers/1196895251

But here's a quick reminder of why GNU/Linux is a safer bet.

Sun’s worst open source nightmare happened

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| Sun was recently the perfect example of why many companies don't invest more 
| in open source software.  Sun was accused of hardball open source project 
| tactics.   Many companies are afraid to start working on open source software 
| projects because they are afraid they might make a mistake - and mistakes in  
| the open source world are very public, feedback is harsh and the negative 
| publicity sticks around for a long time on the internet.    
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http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2007/12/suns-worst-open-source-nightmare-happened/


Related:

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


Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn

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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html


McNealy says Sun evaluating OpenSolaris on GPL

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| There have been nearly 8 million downloads of Solaris in the last
| two years, and there are 900 systems certified to run Solaris,
| which is more than any Linux distribution, McNealy said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070509/tc_infoworld/88402


Sun hopes for Linux-like Solaris

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| Basic operations, such as the "ls" command to see a listing of
| files in a directory, behave differently in Solaris, and Solaris
| lacks Linux tools for packaging, downloading and installing
| software such as Debian's apt-get, Murdock said. And Linux's
| installation process is much better than that of Solaris, in
| part because of better hardware support, he said.
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http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,62011784,00.htm


"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award  

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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today". 
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/

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