[occi-wg] Offtopic: Rackspace open-sources its cloud interface

[Sam Johnston]

This is a really great initiative on their behalf but, like Sun, it's
missing a key piece: patents.

IPR 101
Intellectual property (which is said to be a "seductive
mirage<http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html>")
has 3 parts:

   - Copyrights
   - Patents
   - Trademarks

They've got copyright covered... both the specification and the [client
side] implementation are under CC-BY and MIT licenses respectively. I didn't
see anything about patents though so without a pledge we can't touch it, and
just see how long it is that you're advertising your product using the terms
"Rackspace" or "Sun" before you have a letter from their trademark lawyers.

I'll take the patent issue up with them and we have our own name so we're
good on that front.

Sam

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 9:31 AM, Thijs Metsch <Thijs.Metsch at sun.com> wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> Apparently Rackspace is doing open -source:
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-13556_3-10293785-61.html?tag=mncol;posts
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Thijs
>
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