Just concluded...a great session on free and open source by Simon Phipps. In his talk, Simon addressed several open questions on licensing, patents, and trademarks.
Notes from Simon's session
- Sun is the largest commercial contributor to open source
- Sun contributes to 750 free and open source software products
- Today, Apache software foundation and Ubuntu are very key to free software
- We operate in a "global mesh" as part of the FOSS community
- FOSS is an expression of change in society
- FOSS is not about saving money, it is about sovereignty
- Sun is engaging in open source to be part of the bigger community
- We need to learn how to handle software patents
Simon also talked about:
- Corporate behavior
- Trademark issues
- Transparency vs democracy
Simon also announced the "Sun Open Source Community Innovation Awards" in his talk.