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The January rumours were true and on Friday Oracle laid off the core talent from the Solaris and SPARC teams, in effect finally killing what they had left of Sun Microsystems. When Oracle aquired Sun, there were a lot of valuable assets, each of which, except VirtualBox, has been squandered and abandoned. Simon Phipps enumerates the main ones and what happened to them.
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(Score: 2) by crafoo on Wednesday September 06 2017, @08:57AM
"If it is transferrable, or saleable, then why would the guy with the money (in this case, Larry) not just buy it? The owner would n be... Larry."
I'm saying that it shouldn't be transferable and they should not be able to buy it. "it" is an artificial thing granted by government to promote the generation of new innovations. The current mess doesn't really do that. I believe a big part of the problem is the transferring of control and the ability to create wealth of each new innovations away from the innovators and to the people that control the capital. At most, limited contracts that grant another person the ability to use a patent to build something useful and make money from the product is probably a good idea. Not control of the IP itself, or the ability to litigate it without the original inventors/creators present, in person, and in agreement.