This is a really great initiative on their behalf but, like Sun, it's missing a key piece: patents. IPR 101 Intellectual property (which is said to be a "seductive mirage<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html>") has 3 parts: - Copyrights - Patents - Trademarks They've got copyright covered... both the specification and the [client side] implementation are under CC-BY and MIT licenses respectively. I didn't see anything about patents though so without a pledge we can't touch it, and just see how long it is that you're advertising your product using the terms "Rackspace" or "Sun" before you have a letter from their trademark lawyers. I'll take the patent issue up with them and we have our own name so we're good on that front. Sam On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Thijs Metsch <Thijs.Metsch@sun.com> wrote:
Hi,
Apparently Rackspace is doing open -source:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-10293785-61.html?tag=mncol;posts
Cheers,
-Thijs
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