Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Slams Open-Source Licensing Model (NewsFactor)

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Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn

Sun's Jonathan Schwartz Takes on
Longhorn 11/19/2003 02:15 PM
Jonathan Schwartz, Sun Microsystems Inc.'s executive vice president of software, took time after his quarterly Town Hall in San Francisco to sit down with eWEEK Contributing Editor Steve Gillmor in a conversation about Microsoft Corp.'s Longhorn Wave and the market challenges and opportunities it may present for Sun.

Open Source: just another licensing
model

Open Source: just another licensing
model 06/16/2004 05:21 AM
In the end, it's all about lucre

Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model

Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model 06/01/2004 07:19 AM
ZDNet Jun 1 2004 11:45AM GMT

Sun CEO Schwartz Promises Open Source
Solaris

Sun CEO Schwartz Promises Open Source
Solaris 06/02/2004 08:47 AM

"Jonathan Schwartz"

"Jonathan Schwartz" 08/02/2004 03:12 PM

Jonathan Schwartz

Jonathan Schwartz 06/25/2004 11:57 AM

I just asked Jonathan Schwartz a question about Eclipse and SWT and what Sun thought of that.

He said that Java 1.5 was teh solution. He admitted that Sun had dropped the ball on the client side - but that there were 350M cell phone out there running Java.

I say "Right On!" get Java to work!

Sun?s Schwartz cites open source Solaris
intentions

Sun?s Schwartz cites open source Solaris
intentions 04/05/2005 05:19 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - In offering an open source version of the Solaris operating system, Sun Microsystems? main intent was to expand the open source community rather than to grab business from the rival Linux OS, Sun President and COO Jonathan Schwartz said at a conference here Tuesday morning.

Suns Schwartz cites open source Solaris
intentions

Suns Schwartz cites open source Solaris
intentions 04/06/2005 09:11 AM
InfoWorld Apr 6 2005 12:35PM GMT

Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g

Jonathan Schwartz starts a bl0g 06/30/2004 05:48 PM
Jonathan Schwartz, the President and COO of Sun Microsystems, now has a weblog. 

I've known Jonathan for several years, and he's one of the smartest, most with-it executives in high-tech. All you need to know about him is that he was thrilled when I introduced him at Supernova last week as a "maverick." At the same time, he's totally focused on returning Sun to its former glory, and reinvigorating the IT sector along the way. We had a great conversation at the conference -- check out Heath Row's transcript.

I fully expect that the blog will reflect the man himself, not some PR scribe.

Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz"

Supernova '05: "Perspective: Jonathan
Schwartz" 06/24/2005 09:23 PM

Since yesterday morning I've been hanging around at Supernova and I've been taking some fairly intensive notes, but I've not yet had the opportunity to write any of it up. Over the next hour or so, I hope to put up some of my reactions from the last day and a half of the conference. I'm a little unclear as yet whether I'll be posting the full notes that I've been making for each part of the conference. I guess we'll see. They're not always of the most enormous value.

For people who don't know, the core idea behind Supernova and the concept of the conference i decentralisation and the effects of network. I guess the metaphor is of the aftermath of the exploded centre, where top-down governance and control gives up its power (by choice or by force) to the new many-to-many network where power and agency operates at the edges. The conference takes that fundamental concept and looks at its application across a whole range of different subject areas - from social software and personal publishing, search, telecoms, gaming, business, media as well as around meta-areas like how individuals deal with this radically different vision of the world. I think by necessity this creates a kind of weirdly diverse conference that attracts radically different types of people whose relationship to each other isn't always easy. So you've got the business people, the alpha geeks, the legislators, the military, the policy people and the academics talking about things from very different angles. Which means that any individual part of the audience is likely to be frustrated at some points, bored at other points and insanely fascinated for the rest of the time.

I'm going to start with a brief bit of coverage of a discussion between Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems and Kevin Werbach of Supernova. The two major areas of this discussion were really about about whether or not Web 2.0 was a reality (the answers to which were relatively anodyne) and a much more interesting discussion about future business communication with weblogs.

I kind of take my life in my hands a bit every time I go off on a discussion about weblogs after six years of writing this site, but sometimes it really does seem that there genuinely still more that can still be said around the edges. Here are a few really telling quotes (probably mistranscribed) from Schwartz that I noted down during his piece:

I've learned a lot of things. If you think about what a leader does, you're fundamentally a communicator. You have to be able to communicate to the marketplace to the people who report to you - there is no efficient way of doing that than using the network - using the internet. If you want to be a leader, I can't see you surviving without a blog. It's like being a leader without having e-mail or a mobile phone. You still find them very occasionally, but it's moving away. It's very rare.

Authenticity is absolutely paramount. Getting poeple to write your blogs is ridiculous. It's like hiring people to read your e-mail. You might be able to get away with it, but it's kind of like pushing a rock up a hill...

When I first heard Schwartz talking in these directions, I genuinely didn't know what I thought about it. In my experience weblogs inside organisations don't tend to be terribly interesting or useful and only a limited number of people participate with them. I was going ready to treat his comments with a similar scepticism (particularly given some of his earlier comments about authentication and the future of the web which were pretty banal), but he blew my suspions out of the water with some of his later comments. When challenged about whether he was only talking about communicating with the company internally or doing it in full view of the public, he said something really interesting.

For a start, he said that in the near future he wanted to start doing all his communications via his weblog. Then he moved on to addressing this internal / external dichotomy. He mentioned a particular case where particularly good employees had their names and photos put up on an intranet celebrating their achievements. Instead of this he suggested that it should be done completely in public. He said that some people had suggested that this might mean that the staff concerned would just be poached by other companies but he responded that good people would always be open for poaching. And here's the interesting bit - he said he had no interest in an internal weblog, that he wants it to be completely transparent and that while he was aware that this approach and celebrating his employees achievements in public might to his competitors knowing what he was doing, it also meant that their employees could see it too - and they can then use that to decide if he's a more attractive leader with better policies and a vetter vision of the future.

This is a view of the world that I really like - it doesn't limit your ability to have particular specific projects operating under the radar, but it's an acceptance that large-scale strategy and communications about your company as a whole is never secret. And rather than treating that as a weakness or as a problem, it turns and faces it directly. It let's people see the way you run your company and encourages people to question and interrogate it - creating a virtuous circle of improvement and self-awareness inside organisations that raises the whole level of the debate. For everything else you might say about Sun, this is a noble idealistic and inspiring aspiration. Very cool.

[You can read my very rough notes on this interview as it happened her e.]

Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip

Jonathan Schwartz Shows 32-Way
UltraSPARC Chip 09/14/2004 07:22 AM

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model.

Pingtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With
New Open Source Business Model. 02/18/2004 10:41 PM
Pi ngtel Breaks Open VoIP Monopolies With New Open Source Business Model. Interesting.

Will Sun's Java Go Open Source?

Will Sun's Java Go Open Source? 03/17/2005 03:41 AM
Slashdot Mar 17 2005 7:04AM GMT

Sun slams open source licence

Sun slams open source licence 04/06/2005 09:56 AM
ZDNet Australia Apr 6 2005 1:42PM GMT

SCO trumps Sun's open source Solaris bid

SCO trumps Sun's open source Solaris bid 06/09/2004 02:10 PM
Sun trumps SCO by not knowing its own plans

Sun's new licenses: "Closed open source"

Sun's new licenses: "Closed open source" 03/17/2005 03:42 AM
Sun Microsystems inched closer to a full open source release of Java code Wednesday but, to the surprise of no one, stopped just short of such a landmark deal. Ultimately what transpired -- as explained to media members and analysts via conference call -- was that the Santa Clara, Calif.-based hardware and software company has merely fine-tuned its stance on Java licensing and is finishing up a trio of new, simplified licenses as evidence of its intent to simplify the legalities of enterprise application development.

Microsoft's Ballmer slams open source

Microsoft's Ballmer slams open source 07/13/2004 11:55 PM
Sympatico Jul 14 2004 4:51AM GMT

Open Source Licensing

Open Source Licensing 09/22/2004 10:58 PM

Open-Source Lifeline Pulls Up Sun's
Cobalt

Open-Source Lifeline Pulls Up Sun's
Cobalt 06/29/2004 10:21 PM
The Web server applicance is raking in new users since Sun open-sourced its code, even though the company has discontinued the line.

Q&A: Sun's John Loiacono on open-source
Solaris

Q&A: Sun's John Loiacono on open-source
Solaris 07/09/2004 05:03 PM
Sun will make its Solaris operating system available under an open-source model by the end of the year, according to John Loiacono, the company's executive vice president of software.

Intel snaffles Sun's open source
champion

Intel snaffles Sun's open source
champion 03/22/2005 04:52 PM
Computer Weekly Mar 21 2005 2:01PM GMT

Sun's Long Road to Open-Source Solaris

Sun's Long Road to Open-Source Solaris 06/03/2004 01:59 PM
Sun's announcement of plans to open-source Solaris are the latest public glimpse of a project that has been years in the making, and efforts are further along than Sun execs are letting on.

The Ins and Outs of Open-Source
Licensing

The Ins and Outs of Open-Source
Licensing 06/16/2004 06:50 AM
Recent moves by such companies as Sun Microsystems and Computer Associates to dip their toes into the world of open source have reawakened interest in how open-source software licenses work, and what benefits they bring to software companies—if any.

JCP Embraces Open-Source Licensing

JCP Embraces Open-Source Licensing 10/29/2002 12:41 PM
The Java Community Process is becoming more flexible and user friendly to attract more developers.

Analysts Question Sun's Open-Source
Solaris Plans

Analysts Question Sun's Open-Source
Solaris Plans 09/21/2004 07:08 PM
Sun's plans to offer Solaris code to the open-source community leaves some analysts scratching their heads.

Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL

Sun's Schwartz Attacks GPL 04/06/2005 11:36 AM

Open Source Licensing - Cuts Both Ways?

Open Source Licensing - Cuts Both Ways? 04/04/2005 11:09 AM

Sun tweaks Java licensing but does not
go open source

Sun tweaks Java licensing but does not
go open source 03/17/2005 03:10 AM
Sun Microsystems on Wednesday tweaked its Java licensing, emphasizing that the company wants to make Java as open source as possible while maintaining platform compatibility.

Sun's Schwartz bashes Microsoft

Sun's Schwartz bashes Microsoft 12/22/2003 02:05 AM
Sun Microsystem's Jonathan Schwartz, executive vice president of the company's software group, has criticized Microsoft for pulling the plug on products that had a JVM (Java virtual machine) deemed incompatible with Sun's. In an open letter on Sun's Web site, he said that Microsoft had lost sight of customer priorities.

"Microsoft's recent unilateral decision to discontinue support for Windows 98 and other products as of December 23, 2003 offers users a lesson, and an opportunity," Schwartz wrote. "It's a lesson in how a company with legendary market dominance can lose sight of customer priorities, and force an unnecessary transition onto a customer base already paralyzed with viruses and security breaches."

Pay for Sun's Schwartz jumps 56 percent

Pay for Sun's Schwartz jumps 56 percent 09/22/2004 06:47 PM
Sun Microsystems' new president pulls in $677,000 in fiscal 2004, as the company tries to return to prosperity.

is sun's schwartz going to be dooced for
his bl0g

is sun's schwartz going to be dooced for
his bl0g 08/04/2004 01:20 AM
i wanna see if he becomes the highest profile person fired for a blog post

Sun's Schwartz Snaps "Niagara" CPU Pic

Sun's Schwartz Snaps "Niagara" CPU Pic 09/14/2004 02:19 PM
Sun Microsystems Inc. president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz has published a picture of the company's upcoming "Niagara" microprocessor on his blog.

Sun's Schwartz Ponders Blogging

Sun's Schwartz Ponders Blogging 06/29/2004 10:37 AM
The president of Sun Microsystems says he is seriously considering maintaining his own blog to communicate with the public regarding Java, Sun and other issues.

Sun's Schwartz on JDS, DRM, Auto-Update

Sun's Schwartz on JDS, DRM, Auto-Update 04/19/2004 09:47 PM
Sun president and chief operating officer Jonathan Schwartz talks more about open source and standards, auto-update, DRM and identity with eWEEK's Steve Gillmor.

Does the open source model apply beyond
software?

Does the open source model apply beyond
software? 01/04/2005 01:17 PM
Does the open source model apply beyond software? This is a question being asked more and more. For instance, is there potential for "open source biology"? If I actually knew biology, I might be able to answer that question. However, in twisting my brain to say anything meaningful, I had...

A model for open source software
development

A model for open source software
development 05/25/2004 11:36 AM
Critics of open source software have argued that, from an economic standpoint, "giving the product away" makes no sense. As a new business model, open source has been the victim of many misconceptions and mischaracterizations: that it's the equivalent of communism, that's it's like a virus, and that it's economically dangerous to society, for example. In such a hostile atmosphere, it's not easy to objectively assess a new paradigm that differs greatly from the status quo. However, though a comparable model may not exist in the IT sector, a parallel working model for open source already exists in at least one other field, biomedical research, and this model has been proven to be of great benefit to society.

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible

Open-Source Developers: Microsoft
Licensing Must Be GPL-Compatible 03/19/2005 02:53 AM
They say the European Commission will have to demand substantial changes to Microsoft's protocol-licensing plan if it wants to bring real competition back to the workgroup server market.

New: Understanding Open Source and Free
Software Licensing

New: Understanding Open Source and Free
Software Licensing 09/22/2004 10:12 AM
O'Reilly's Understanding Open Source and Free Software Licensing discusses copyright, patent, and warranty issues with open source licenses and explores how to choose among the licenses.

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers

LinuxWorld: Big Changes Coming from
Open-Source Licensing, Developers 06/05/2005 11:54 PM
eWeek May 26 2005 5:29PM GMT
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