Dan Sholler

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Oracle, Sun and the EU: Defining the business impact of Open Source

by Dan Sholler  |  September 3, 2009  |  1 Comment

I just saw that the EU had opened and investigation into the purchase of Sun by Oracle from a competitive practice standpoint.  I am not a lawyer, and am not an expert in anti-trust law, especially in Europe, but it seems to me that this case raises some very serious and interesting questions about the [...]

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Rumors and rationale

by Dan Sholler  |  September 26, 2008  |  1 Comment

In the course of an interesting conversation on a different topic, I heard a rumor that could have a significant effect on the perception of open source. The person I was speaking with mentioned that certain agencies in the US Department of Defense and Intelligence communities were thinking of biasing their procurement policies toward open [...]

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