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Donnerstag Mai 24, 2007

Sun and Redflag Chinese 2000 to Collaborate
This should give OpenOffice.org another boost:
"Under the provisions of the agreement, Beijing Redflag Chinese 2000, which produces the popular OpenOffice.org-based RedOffice, will add to the open source project approximately 50 engineers, some of whom have been working on the OpenOffice.org project since the second half of 2006."
The full press release can be found here.
( Mai 24 2007, 10:11:51 AM CEST ) Permalink Kommentare [2]

Simon Phipps about software patents
In this article my boss answers questions regarding software patents:
"Well, Sun is supportive of the Patent Reform Act of 2007, which Mike discusses in some detail in his blog. But I personally also believe we need to address some other issues too. If I were king (or at least an autocratic president), I'd do some or all of these:
...
If we have to have software patents, their term and applicability needs control:
* Make them last no more than five years, renewable once.
* Make them unenforceable against ISO [International Standards Organization] standards (and possibly other bodies).
* Give immunity to implementations created in clean-room conditions for interoperability."
( Mai 24 2007, 10:10:05 AM CEST ) Permalink