In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer, Simon Phipps, admits that Sun “screwed up” regarding open source. (The picture is of Phipps speaking in Bangalore from the official Sun FOSS.IN blog.) But he isolates the “screw-up” to 2001-2002, when Sun was still a proprietary company.

Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun "screwed up".

The Open Source Initiative have elected Simon Phipps, who recently left Oracle after serving as Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, to the board of directors

ForgeRock has announced that Simon Phipps, ex-Sun Chief Open Source Officer and board member of the OSI and OSA, has joined its board as Chief Strategy Officer to develop and communicate the company's open source plans

Bernard Golden had lunch with Simon Phipps, Sun's open source point man, during which Phipps noted that one of Sun's major challenges for its open source-forward strategy is that many existing customers are uncomfortable using software that does not require a licensing fee, That's true even when Sun explains the company is happy to take money from them, just that the fee is for support services.

OSI Board member, Simon Phipps, says Google's VP8 codec is "not currently open source" and it is possible that the licence would not pass the OSI

Sun Microsystems on Wednesday will release details of a new award program meant to spur growth and activity within the company's open-source efforts, according to a post by Sun's open-source officer, Simon Phipps, on his corporate blog.

Simon Phipps, OSI board member, is creating a group to develop a new charter to renew the Open Source Initiative as a member-based grass roots organisation

Stephen O’Grady and Simon Phipps have both recently published interesting posts on the current state of open source, with Stephen pondering the relative growth of open source and Simon wondering whether the “commercial open source” bubble has burst.