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CNET News: Red Hat Exec Takes Sun to Task on Open Source

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Stephen Shankland
Sep 25, 2004

“A top Red Hat executive has attacked the open-source
credentials of its sometime business partner Sun Microsystems.

“In a Web log posting Thursday, Michael Tiemann, Red Hat’s vice
president of open-source affairs, criticized Sun for its support of
software patents and its decision to keep Java a proprietary
software…”


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