Technology giants continue to embrace the open source community by releasing a number of patents on their products. With Globus Consortium. Globus, which is made up of IBM, Sun, HP and Intel will be providing an open source toolkit that promotes grid-computing. While Sun is part of Globus, the company is also releasing a number of patents to the open source community. According to John Loiacono, executive vice president of Software at Sun, had these comments about Sun's patent releases, "Sun's heritage has always been deeply rooted in open source and open standards-based software. OpenSolaris(tm) represents a significant milestone in the history of Sun, the Solaris community and larger open source community. We strongly believe the OpenSolaris community will help foster the innovation and collaboration needed to open up new opportunities for developers, customers and partners." Chris Richardson is a search engine writer and editor for latest search news
Sun Decides To Join Open Source Patent Move
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