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Trend Micro Draws Boycott Over AV Patent Case
Linux.com is reporting that in addition to the bad press, Trend Micro's patent case against Barracuda Networks' use of ClamAV has drawn an apparent boycott of Trend Micro. "Dutch free knowledge and culture advocacy group ScriptumLibre called for 'a worldwide boycott on Trend Micro products.' In its news release, ScriptumLibre summarizes the case, with its chairman, Wiebe van der Worp, describing Trend Micro's actions as 'well beyond the borders of decency.' The ScriptumLibre site includes link to free graphics that supporters can add to their Web pages to show their support and a call for IT professionals that provides a links to help people to educate themselves about the case and suggests a series of actions that people can take in the boycott." Linux.com and Slashdot are both owned by SourceForge Inc.
I don't know about Sun... I've run OpenSolaris this summer for ZFS (which, BTW absolutely rocks!), and it felt like baby sitting a 4 year old. However, Sun does sell awesome hardware/OS packages (albeit very expensive) and really does have a nice modular enterprise software stack. I think they'll end up becoming an IBM, grow old and respected community member making good revenue consulting and doing high end systems. Then again, they are still holding their own with Java and netbeans (ironically, IBM's eclipse community is looking to netbeans as a desired direction for GUI design), so I wouldn't count them off the desktop any time too soon. BTW, it just hit me, whatever happened to JavaFX?
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.