Comments on: Holiday catchup http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/ Usability an' that Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:14:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thomas McMahon http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Thomas McMahon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/#comment-265 Hi Callum,<p/>I was hoping you would be able to shed some light on something for me.<p/>I was reading a lot about the Sun Ray 2s a month or so back, I think they are really snappy bits of hardware. My only concern was the server softare being closed.<p/>I emailed Sun to ask them whether there were plans to open it under a free software license, however I never received a reply.<p/>Do you know of any plans to open source the Sun Ray 2 server software?<p/>Cheers,<p/>Tom Hi Callum,

I was hoping you would be able to shed some light on something for me.

I was reading a lot about the Sun Ray 2s a month or so back, I think they are really snappy bits of hardware. My only concern was the server softare being closed.

I emailed Sun to ask them whether there were plans to open it under a free software license, however I never received a reply.

Do you know of any plans to open source the Sun Ray 2 server software?

Cheers,

Tom

]]> By: Calum Benson http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-266 Calum Benson Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/#comment-266 I'm not personally aware of any such plans at the moment, but Sun has said publicly many times that it intends to open source all of its software (perhaps even by the end of this calendar year, according to some reports), so one would imagine that the SRS software will be considered a candidate sooner or later.<p/>Of course, as with any of our software, due diligence may throw up issues that would make open source licensing infeasible... but I really don't have any insight there, and even if I did, our legal department would probably have to shoot me for discussing them here :) I’m not personally aware of any such plans at the moment, but Sun has said publicly many times that it intends to open source all of its software (perhaps even by the end of this calendar year, according to some reports), so one would imagine that the SRS software will be considered a candidate sooner or later.

Of course, as with any of our software, due diligence may throw up issues that would make open source licensing infeasible… but I really don’t have any insight there, and even if I did, our legal department would probably have to shoot me for discussing them here :)

]]> By: Thomas McMahon http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/comment-page-1/#comment-267 Thomas McMahon Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2007/01/10/holiday-catchup/#comment-267 Thanks for shedding some light on this for me :) Thanks for shedding some light on this for me :)

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