Dalibor Topic wrote:
> Stefano Mazzocchi wrote:
>
>> I understand you are concerned about the SCO-like patent attacks of
>> somebody coming in and telling you that you can't run your own code
>> because they own the rights to the concept... but if that is the case
>> against the RI, we have a way bigger problem and that's nothing a
>> license can fix.
>>
>>
> I think a good part of the nightmare scenarious surrouding licensees
> going mad and trying to
> fracture the platform for fun and profit could be fixed quite easily by
> IBM and BEA dropping
> their cards on the table, and going open source with their proprietary
> implementations of
> Java as well.
Maybe - or just declaring a patent peace or patent commons. I think
that there's nothing wrong with proprietary software, so if they want to
keep competing using it, great.
>
> The platform will be much stronger against external attacks if the large
> vendors are in the
> same boat with Sun, rather than if strong stakeholders have an incentive
> to innovate on
> proprietary branches, and perpetuate the current lock-in-based licensing
> schemes.
Well, I think there's a balance to be had... that you want people to
have an investment in the codebase held "in common", as well as the
ability to invest in innovation.
>
> I don't think the market could sort a proprietary fork from IBM out
> easily, for example.
I don't understand what that means.
> And I don't think it should have to, given IBM's and BEA's open letter
> campaign for open
> source Java a little while ago.
>
> It's time to put up, and invest into the future of the platform, rather
> than future of lock-in.
One way would be for everyone to work on a common codebase for things
that are shared, in a symmetrical, equal fashion, with the ability to do
whatever proprietary work they want too...
geir
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