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Anti-patent MySQL AB being swallowed by more equivocal Sun
MySQL AB, a company outspoken in its criticisms of software patents, will become part of Sun Microsystems, which tolerates such patents, presumably as a kind of necessary evil. This will leave the anti-software patent leadership in the hands of the EFF, Richard Stallman, and the like, while we wait to see if a new corporate champion emerges.
Posted on January 16, 2008 at 08:46 AM | Permalink
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