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2005-06-15

on sun's "open" solaris and similar projects

i've just read this article on groklaw about m$, sun and ibm's efforts to incorporate open source achievements in their products. after finishing reading the part about sun's cddl Antitrust came to my mind. Everyone interested in computers and oss in special and who dislikes m$ should know this movie. for those who don't, i'll give a quick summary.
it's about some evil bill-gates-look-a-like played by tim robbins who has a company which resembles m$ in several ways. let's call that evil guy bill, just for simplicity. :) so bill has this great project he wants to finish on time, but his criminal energy outpowers his coding skills. then he has this weird idea of spying on open source developers, steal their code and afterwards kill them. i don't want to spoil too much, so you can still enjoy the movie. ah, btw ryan phillippe plays the cute nerdy counterpart to tim robbin's character.
Back to my original topic: sun, ibm and m$. some higher executives in this companies must have seen antitrust. they try to do just the same, except spying on and killing is replaced be law and copyright stuff (which can be even more evil). i suggest you read the full article. groklaw does a good job at summarizing the important stuff and giving explanations for the legal stuff. it would be a waste of my time to write a summary of a summary.

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