Sun Not Scared of Microsoft. Has its own Patents for OpenSource
The open-source community is very vocal about software patents. Sun owns lots of them. Isn’t that a contradiction for Sun to claim to be an open-source community member yet own software patents?
Ah, ya, ok, whatever Sun! I read the article four times and I still don’t get where they are coming from on this. But like most large companies that have thousands of patents and are an avid open-source community member, i.e., IBM. They want “YOU” to believe in the movement (OS, GPL etc). Why, because they benefit by using that Open Source for relatively low cost; while integrated with their own solutions for which they make millions upon millions of dollars. Who benefits from Open Source again? (monetarily speaking)
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