http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/ Engadget Comments for CE-Oh no he didn't! Part XLI: Sun's James Eagleton says Microsoft guilty of "patent terrorism" http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 10:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 10:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 10:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 26th 2007 1:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 26th 2007 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 11:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 26th 2007 1:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Apple are Nazis.
The Linux guys are Commies.
Sun are.... ummm... 19th Century Ottoman Turks?]]>Jul 26th 2007 1:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/I'd believe you... if I didn't see loads of iPod knockoffs while I was in China. The best part- these small Chinese companies usually have an inside link to government people, while Apple apparently doesn't.]]>Jul 26th 2007 5:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/
The world is now a safer place.]]>Jul 26th 2007 8:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 25th 2007 11:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/Jul 26th 2007 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/25/ce-oh-no-he-didnt-part-xli-suns-james-eagleton-says-microso/
The reason he is making these comments is because part of Sun's strategy around open source software is that they provide indemnification for customers, meaning that if someone like Microsoft files a patent suit, customers will not be held liable for infringement. This is a big deal for large customers making big investments in infrastructure.

This story is just a reminder to Sun's bread-and-butter enterprise customers that open source software from Sun is "safer" than open source software from other providers or which was just downloaded off the 'net. Nothing to see here, move along.]]>Jul 26th 2007 4:01AM