DivaBlog

My friends have been asking for months why I've not been blogging. The answer is simple, I signed on to the OpenSolaris team awhile ago and its been taking up nearly all of my time. Also, most of what I've been working on has been "not for comment"...until today!

I'm listening to Scott McNealy just now talking about OpenSolaris release under the CDDL. What's more, he's announcing that the Sun Board of Directors has agreed to indemnify the OpenSolaris community for all 1600 patents associated with Solaris! Wow! I never thought we'd get them to go so far. This is better than IBM's grant: all the patents affected are core software patents, not a collection of patents that won't affect the community. And for OpenSolaris we are governed by the same CDDL license as everyone else, including the patent peace provision. Go and read it. This is a level playing field.

So, go check it all out, and you'll know what I've been up to for the last several weeks. More on why I think this is a good use of my time in my next blog. For now I'm going back to listening to the annoucement call....