"In addition to seeking the removal of their products from the marketplace, we will be going after sizable monetary damages. And I am committing that Sun will donate half of those proceeds to the leading institutions promoting free software and patent reform (in specific, The Software Freedom Law Center and the Peer to Patent initiative), and to the legal defense of free software innovators. We will continue to fund the aggressive reexamination of spurious patents used against the community (which we've been doing behind the scenes on behalf of several open source innovators). Whatever's left over will fuel a venture fund fostering innovation in the free software community."

Wow, Sun is on a litigation and public relations warpath again. Last time they focussed on Microsoft, won the suit, lost big time in their market cap because they were perceived by investors as they perceived the game themselves, to be playing in the small (personal style) server space instead of the big iron business, where they were once the heavy weights.

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