Jun
5
On reverse-engineering, patents and open source.
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Bryan Cantrill, kernel engineer extraordinaire and co-author of Dtrace, blogged his thoughts about reverse-engineering and patents in the context of Linus moving the Linux kernel souce code mgmt system from BitKeeper. Read more
Jan
28
Why IBM won’t certify products for x86 Solaris 10
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Sun is mad at IBM. Sun’s President and COO Jonathan Schwartz even wrote an angry letter to our CEO Sam Palmisano last Friday. Understandably. This eWeek report from the 17th of January states that IBM’s refused to “test, certify and support its enterprise software applications on Solaris 10 for x86 platforms”. Which is strange, considering that IBM’s fully agreed to do the exact same thing for Solaris 10 on SPARC.