I am not a lawyer either but FWIW, suppose IBM acquired Sun and IBM wanted to get complete control of the Java Platform specs - this sort of control could allow them to elevate WebSphere and other products in the marketplace. The agreement I gave in that link is between the participant and Sun (which would now be IBM), not the participant and the JCP or some other open organization thus IBM could terminate those agreements - of course it couldn't claim the IP already developed as theirs but could prevent other vendors from having any influence in the future spec directions.
On Mar 26, 4:01 pm, Van Riper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:18 PM, jharby <[email protected]> wrote: > >The agreement to join the JCP really > > gives a good deal of power to Sun > > -http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/JSPA2.pdf > > I'm not disagreeing with assessment that Sun has more than its fair > share of influence in the activities of the JCP. However, I don't see > it being due to the structure of this legal agreement. I'm no lawyer, > but, this agreement seems to me to be mainly about making clear that > contributions to the JCP must be unencumbered IP. Not really seeing > where this particular legal document gives Sun any particular power > that IBM would inherit through acquisition. Please enlighten me. > > Thanks, Van > > -- > | Michael "Van" Riper > | JUG-USA Interim President > |https://jug-usa.dev.java.net > ---- > | Silicon Valley Web JUG > | mailto:[email protected] > |http://www.meetup.com/sv-web-jug/ > ---- > | Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group > | mailto:[email protected] > |http://www.meetup.com/sv-gtug/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
