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Current Newswire: My Quest for Free Licensed Japanese Pop Music C++ Help: Installing and Using Code::Blocks On Linux Help an Old PC: Give KDE 3.5 the Oxygen Touch Linux Mint 9 (Debian) Review Mozilla Labs Announces Gaming Platform More Android tablets break cover GNOME 3 at Xen 4.0.1 (2.6.32.21 pvops) on top of F14 (rawhide) Old Generals Never Die - They just Wear a Red Hat How Stock Photo Agency YayMicro.com was Created Using Only Open Source Technology. Samsung Opens The Door To 1080p On Smartphones Senior Oracle Implementation Consultant Thomson Reuters (Tax & Accounting), Inc. US-OR-Lake Oswego Post A Job | Post A Resume Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal Mar 10, 2010, 15 :02 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (3235 reads) (Other stories by Jonathan Schwartz) "I feel for Google – Steve Jobs threatened to sue me, too. "In 2003, after I unveiled a prototype Linux desktop called Project Looking Glass*, Steve called my office to let me know the graphical effects were “stepping all over Apple’s IP.” (IP = Intellectual Property = patents, trademarks and copyrights.) If we moved forward to commercialize it, “I’ll just sue you.” "My response was simple. “Steve, I was just watching your last presentation, and Keynote looks identical to Concurrence – do you own that IP?” Concurrence was a presentation product built by Lighthouse Design, a company I’d help to found and which Sun acquired in 1996." Complete Story Related Stories: Sun CEO Schwartz resigns on Twitter(Feb 04, 2010) Sun CEO Upbeat in Goodbye Letter(Jan 25, 2010) The rise of the Blue Sun: IBM and Sun(Mar 18, 2009) Slicing up Sun(Dec 04, 2008) Sun: Dead Company Walking?(Nov 17, 2008) Rumor: Sun Setting for Sun's CEO?(Jul 10, 2008) Jonathan Schwartz's Free Software Foundation(Jun 17, 2008) Sun Outlines its Open Source Strategy and MySQL Integration(Mar 27, 2008) Why Sun's CEO Is Fast Becoming a Leading Spokesperson for the Open-Source Community(Mar 12, 2008) No talkbacks posted.   Home | Search Talkbacks | Customize View    Top of Page   Enter your comments below: * Your Name: * Your Email Address: * Subject: CC: [will also send this talkback to an E-Mail address] * Comments: Tags allowed:<I>,<B> and <U>. See our talkback-policy for more about talkback content. Fields marked with * are required!

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