A senior red hat company criticized its business partner Sun micro system lack sincerity in open source.
Last Thursday, MiChael Tiemann, Vice President, Red Hat Open Source, criticized Sun Support Software Patent and Decision Java as intellectual property software.
Jonathan Schwartz, president of the Sun Microsystem, "If you don't want to open the Java source code, you can't get the appropriate rights in the software patent. The result is just let Microsoft get the benefits, why will we trust you? ? "
Schwartz September, in a network log of the openoffice.org community, "Don't believe those stupid conspiracy against Sun, they have passed, now and in the future are mad people. We love open source communities, open source I have brought us a lot of interests, so we have to protect it. "
Although Sun is using a red hat's Linux product on a server based on Xeon and Opteron chips, it also uses opponent Raleigh products. Schwartz said earlier this week, "We do this is a red hat."
Tiemann is a pioneer of open source software, and he hits the red hat in 1999. Cygnus Solutions. Unlike other Linux, other Linux, other Linux, etc., and the red hat only develops open source software.
Sun also takes a bold step in open source movement, such as making its office software StarOffice an open source software. The company also plans to open the source code of the Solaris operating system at the end of this year, but at the same time, other software, such as the intellectual property of Java Enterprise System Server Software.
Tiemann said that the action is far more important to the open source community. He hinted that Sun's support for open source movement is not sufficient.
One of Tiemann's complaints to Sun is the lawsuit of SUN and Microsoft in April. The two sides provided the Securities Exchange Commission in April this month. According to Microsoft, Microsoft agreed to file a lawsuit against OpenOffice, this agreement does not apply to all OpenOffice license users. [Said.com / 风]
