Linked by Tony Steidler-Dennison on Mon 28th Jul 2008 17:32 UTC, submitted by zaboing
In an interview with derStandard.at, Novell developer Michael Meeks talks mostly about Sun's lack of openness in regards to OpenOffice.org. He goes as far as stating that if Sun dropped out of OOo-development this "wouldn't be an entirely negative thing". He also goes on to talk about promoting Go-oo instead, and emphasizes the importance of breaking down the barriers between GNOME and KDE.
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2006-09-30
In SCA (Sun Contributor Agreement, required for contributing to OpenJDK and OpenSolaris) there's no "copyright assignment". There's copyright sharing, which is done by many other open source projects. You still retain your rights, but you share them with Sun.
Also, people who worked on free Java implementations don't seem to have any problems with signing the SCA to work on Openjdk.
Dmitri