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[News] Sun Told Off for Forgotten Attitude; Google Shares Data with Hollywood

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Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun Should Loosen Up  

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| All they can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite frank 
| with you, we screwed up. We alienated a large group of open source developers 
| by the attitudes we had of the community back then.  
| 
| No kidding. I remember sharing a cab in Manhattan at LinuxWorld in 2002 with 
| several Sun folks and hearing the exchange they had about Red Hat and the 
| open source development community. Needless to say, the statements were far 
| from positive. The thrust of their point was that Red Hat claimed to be all 
| good and open source, but the Linux vendor was actually more proprietary than 
| most people thought, and Red Hat's vendors complained mightily about it (or 
| so these guys claimed).      
| 
| [...]
| 
| No, I won't pick on Sun's motives. I think it's the execution that's 
| off-kilter. The company must learn to let go a little bit and let the open 
| source ecology proceed naturally. In the short term, Sun might lose a little 
| bit of advantage in the market, but long term, it is has a better shot at 
| success.    
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3756666

Judge Orders YouTube to Give All User Histories to Viacom

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| Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube 
| users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing 
| Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a 
| judge ruled Wednesday.   
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http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/07/judge-orders-yo.html

As the FSF says, none of these big companies can be trusted. Unless it's free
software and runs on your own PC or server, you're sensitive to abuse.
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