Matt Asay has some interesting news about a shareholder proposal that will be presented to Oracle’s forthcoming shareholder meeting asking the company to detail its commitment to open source and use its patent portfolio to protect open source.
Oracle isn’t keen on the idea, which is the tabloid headline. The interesting news, as Matt suggests, is the fact that this proposal has been made at all.
The proposal has been put forward by Lawrence Fahn of As You Sow, a corporate accountability group, and asks “that the Board issue, at reasonable expense, an Open Source Social Responsibility Report to shareholders by April 2008 that discusses the social and environmental impacts of Oracle?s existing and potential open source policies and practices.”
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