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One of my recommendations to neuter software patents is that all patents violated by a bona fides implementation of an international standard should be inapplicable unless declared in the standards process. This case supports the idea.
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Let's hope this shakes up the US airline market in a good way. The service and standards on the existing carriers are so low that Virgin stands to take over if they can sustain this sort of customer experience.
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"the emphasis in Flickr is on the collective photo sharing experience and on the community. .Mac Gallery is more about one person sharing their work" Totally sums up Apple's attitude - "community" means "market" to too many corporations.
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""BAA accepts that the experience of too many passengers using London airports is unsatisfactory," said the firm." You bet. And it's becuase of BAA's utter contempt for those passengers as it pursues profit.
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"Sun ... grants access to its Java Technology Compatibility Kit to anyone with an open-source Java project that is based substantially on Sun's open-source Java software and governed by the General Public License (GPL)."
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I wrote in March that Sun would be providing a JCK for OpenJDK. Here it is.