----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Coopersmith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alan DuBoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Kaiwai Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jim Grisanzio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org> Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 3:18 PM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] An Open Letter to the Solaris Community.
> Alan DuBoff wrote: >> On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> >>> Doesn't matter how much you reverse engineer - if it's patented, you >>> still >>> need a license to ship it. >> >> Depends on which protocol and the license, IMO. I can get many of those >> mentioned protocols for a Linux distribution snatching off a server in >> another country. Why should Solaris be the same? > > No reason, provided you find someone in those countries that's willing to > do it and unlike Sun, doesn't have a US presence to sue. Or easy still, approach the company and pay for the rights to the protocol. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
