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November 18, 2004 4:00 AM PST

Sun plans patent protection for open-source Solaris

By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News

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development advantages described by "The Cathedral and the Bazaar," the manifesto written by Open Source Initiative President Eric Raymond.

"They're frustrated with their inability to get their changes in. They don't get a vote," Schwartz said of companies trying to steer Linux. "That seems awfully cathedral-like as opposed to the bazaar of the JCP."

Torvalds took the criticism in stride. "Hey, he can ding me however much he wants; I'm OK with that. I'll just wait to see what he actually does as opposed to what he says," Torvalds said via e-mail.

And Torvalds doesn't discount Sun's open-source efforts. "I'll be really happy if Sun ends up being a good open-source player," he said. "They have a great history from the '80s. Let's see if they can actually get back to it."

JCP executive committee members are elected (aside from Sun, which has a permanent seat). The group announced results of its annual executive committee elections Tuesday. Among other changes, Google and JBoss won three-year terms on the committee governing Java for PCs and servers.

To build the open-source Solaris community, Sun will draw on the JCP model but provide more freedoms to developers, Schwartz said.

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