> On top of all this, IBM has materially misled its investors, falsely representing in its securities filings that a third-party owns all of the Unix and UnixWare copyrights, and that this third-party has waived any infringement claim against IBM. IBM mischaracterizes in its securities filings a prior court ruling that found old Unix and UnixWare code, created before September 19, 1995, belonged to the third-party. IBMโs filings make it sound like the third-party was found to own all Unix and UnixWare code. These statements are demonstrably false. In fact, with regard to Xinuosโ code created after September 19, 1995, and which IBM stole, Xinuos owns that code, has never entered into a license agreement with IBM, and has never waived its infringement claims against IBM for stealing that code.
I saw a rumor that the case is ending, but I have not been able to verify it.
I'm wondering whether the end goal of the people behind #Xinuos is to get #IBM to purchase their company, since they're obviously not able to maintain and market their "OpenServer 10" and "OpenServer X" products.
Someone is trying to petition #IBM / #Red_Hat to give #CentOS back to community control instead of making it the upstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux ( #RHEL ).
@clacke "Sounds like Oracle had been eyeing MySQL for far longer than I realized. Would they have even bought Sun if it weren't for MySQL?
Is that even why Sun bought MySQL?"
I'm sure that had something to do with why #MySQL became available for Sun to buy.
First came the #Sleepycat purchase (followed by removal of the #BDB engine), then the #Innobase ( #InnoDB engine ) purchase, then #Sun purchased MySQL, then #IBM rejected Sun's attempt to get purchased, then Oracle purchased #Sun (along with its parts and products ... #Java, #Solaris, MySQL, and so on).
By the way, whenever I need a MySQL compatible database, I select #MariaDB, to avoid #Oracle.
Sort of off-topic: Do you remember when MySQL had a distribution deal for an open source version of SAPDB named MaxDB? It didn't seem to last long (a year or two?). I'm sure sales were much lower than SAP expected.
#ShowerThoughts we've pushed back against #SPOV (Single Points of Failure) in digital technology for years, and won: * we defeated mainframes with personal computers and #InternetProtocols (TCP/IP) * we defeated the #IBM monopoly on the PC with Windows-compatible generics * we defeated #AOL and #Compuserve with the web protocols * we defeated the #Windows monopoly with the #Linux kernel, which enabled OS diversity on user devices (#GNU, #Android, #Sailfish, and more)
I just bought a used #IBM#Thinkpad X60, with 4GB of RAM and a 480GB SSD, for 1030 RNB. The equivalent of about US$150 or 140 Euros. It definitely runs #Trisquel GNU/Linux (including #WiFi) and I'm hoping I can install #Libreboot on it.
Kudos for them doing something reasonable. Not being facetious, I want to encourage companies to make new and better type, and putting it into the world, as good citizens (the folks that make up the company).
No, nothing that would be helpful. Current or former #IBM product, targeted below #DB2, above #MySQL. Every time I see #Informix mentioned, I also see #Java. I've never seen it in use anywhere.