Comments on: Public Thank You to Simon Phipps, Chief Open Source Officer at Sun Microsystems http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/ “equally critical of proprietary and open source myths, advocating software choice beyond marketing and romanticism” Thu, 17 May 2012 05:06:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: backgroundcheck http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/comment-page-1/#comment-49013 backgroundcheck Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:57:11 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/#comment-49013 Hi Roberto - As an Italian speaker and user of openoffice.org, I appreciate your efforts to get Italian included! Thank you - Trina Hi Roberto -

As an Italian speaker and user of openoffice.org, I appreciate your efforts to get Italian included!

Thank you -

Trina

]]> By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/comment-page-1/#comment-1290 Roberto Galoppini Tue, 06 Feb 2007 14:36:53 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/#comment-1290 As far as I know legal advice took time, no copyright check had been done about the dictionary or the thesaurus (no code inside, but copyright still applies indeed) as far as I know. By the way I happened to know that a <a href="http://www.itd.cnr.it/?FlagSelected=en" rel="nofollow">public funded Italian institute</a> did the dictionary and/or the thesaurus used by Microsoft's products, but for copyright's reasons it has not been donated to OpenOffice.org. We don’t hear much about those <a href="http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/validating-open-source-ip-indemnity/" rel="nofollow">“background checks”</a> because (I guess) OSS vendors don’t do many checks. Indemnification sounds an insurance business to me, <a href="http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/01/05/open-source-insurance-firm-looks-for-cases/" rel="nofollow">not that big indeed</a>.. As far as I know legal advice took time, no copyright check had been done about the dictionary or the thesaurus (no code inside, but copyright still applies indeed) as far as I know.

By the way I happened to know that a public funded Italian institute did the dictionary and/or the thesaurus used by Microsoft’s products, but for copyright’s reasons it has not been donated to OpenOffice.org.

We don’t hear much about those “background checks” because (I guess) OSS vendors don’t do many checks. Indemnification sounds an insurance business to me, not that big indeed..

]]> By: Savio Rodrigues http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/comment-page-1/#comment-1285 Savio Rodrigues Tue, 06 Feb 2007 13:58:41 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/#comment-1285 Nice work Roberto & team! I wonder whether the time it took Sun to accept the code also had to do with checking for IP & copyright ownership. I've experienced how long such a task can take when a large vendor is involved with distributing OSS code. Large vendors are large litigation targets and need to protect themselves by doing a good deal of due diligence. I've written about my experience with IBM WAS Communality Edition <a href="http://saviorodrigues.wordpress.com/2007/02/06/validating-open-source-ip-indemnity/" rel="nofollow">here.</a> Nice work Roberto & team!

I wonder whether the time it took Sun to accept the code also had to do with checking for IP & copyright ownership.

I’ve experienced how long such a task can take when a large vendor is involved with distributing OSS code. Large vendors are large litigation targets and need to protect themselves by doing a good deal of due diligence.

I’ve written about my experience with IBM WAS Communality Edition here.

]]> By: Roberto Galoppini http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/comment-page-1/#comment-1279 Roberto Galoppini Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:11:59 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/#comment-1279 Hi Kay, I had a look into <a HREF="http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/index" rel="nofollow">"Plan-B for OpenOffice.org"</A> a public beta test support website in the form of animated software manuals. It looks really interesting. Is the framework open source as well? Has the project a free-entrance mechanism? Hi Kay,
I had a look into “Plan-B for OpenOffice.org” a public beta test support website in the form of animated software manuals. It looks really interesting.
Is the framework open source as well? Has the project a free-entrance mechanism?

]]> By: Conficio http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/comment-page-1/#comment-1162 Conficio Mon, 05 Feb 2007 03:50:31 +0000 http://robertogaloppini.net/2007/02/03/public-thank-you-to-simon-phipps-chief-open-source-officer-at-sun-microsystems/#comment-1162 Congratulation to the Italian Native Language project to get your contributions for OpenOffice.org included. K <a href="http://openoffice.screencast-tutorials.com/index" rel="nofollow">Chief screencast(er) t Plan-B for OpenOffice.org</a> Congratulation to the Italian Native Language project to get your contributions for OpenOffice.org included.

K
Chief screencast(er) t Plan-B for OpenOffice.org

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