Sun Microsystems

In a discussion about "Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3" Linus is quite pessimistic about Sun's commitment to open source: "So they want to use Linux resources (_especially_…

You have to take a look at Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog today. He has pledged the company will use its patents to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu. That's the headline, and I'm really happy to know…

Builder AU's Nick Gibson sat down with Sun Microsystems's Chief Open Source Officer Simon Phipps to find out what's the fallout of open sourcing Java, what he really thinks about GPL v3 and why…

"You would be wise to listen to the customers you're threatening to sue - they can leave you, especially if you give them motivation. Remember, they wouldn't be motivated unless your products were…

Hoping to win the hearts and minds of millions of internet programmers, the giants of the software industry are starting to sing a new song: Free your software and developers will follow.

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Releasing Solaris under the GPL -- an idea Jonathan Schwartz first broached publicly in a January, 2006, blog post -- could catalyze large numbers of developers to write software that runs on Sun…

The founder of Debian GNU/Linux, chair of the Linux Standards Base and outgoing CTO of the Linux Foundation, Ian Murdock has joined Sun Microsystems as Chief Operating Platforms Officer. Sun's…

Sun Microsystems has become a "patron" sponsor of the Free Software Foundation, the organization founded by Richard Stallman that ultimately spawned the open-source software movement.

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When it comes to open sourcing Solaris and Java, patents and politics are leading Sun toward a change of heart.

The question is which open source licence should govern the building of…

Reaction to the Free Software Foundation's upcoming revision of the GNU Public License (GPLv3) has been mixed so far, with many participants taking a wait-and-see attitude while others (such as…