Sun prepared to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu against Microsoft patent threats

I've always admired and respected SUN as a company. Now, i love them for what they are standing up to.In Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz's blog this week, he calls on traditional software companies like Microsoft to embrace the "free press" of open source instead of trying to censor it through legal tactics. Sun has an extensive patent portfolio of its own, Schwartz says, and "we'd use it to defend Red Hat and Ubuntu, both)....More on this here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=313



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