Comments on: Open-source Java: Not whether, but how

By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Wed, 17 May 2006 11:31:40 +0000

I do agree that “when” is a question that should be answered though.

By: Ian Murdock

Ian Murdock — Wed, 17 May 2006 10:26:41 +0000

Uh, in case you haven’t noticed, they’ve open sourced just about all of their software by now, so this is a bit more than PR noise without actually meaning it.

By: Stuart Ballard

Stuart Ballard — Tue, 16 May 2006 19:08:07 +0000

First of all yeah, what Dalibor said.

But also I’d have to point out that even if hell freezes over and Sun *does* start using the same definition of Open Source as the rest of the world, Schwartz’s statement is *still* meaningless and pointless. The question is neither whether *nor* how, it’s WHEN?

By: Dalibor Topic

Dalibor Topic — Tue, 16 May 2006 18:58:12 +0000

That’s the same Jonathan Schwartz who ‘open sourced’ Java3D at JavaOne two years ago with huge PR noise. What came out of it was that Sun’s proprietary Java3D implementation stayed proprietary, and it was a bunch of code demonstrating the usage of Java3D that was released under an BSD+ license, that restricts fields of endeavour.

Judging by Sun’s past performance, it’s just more PR noise without actually meaning it.

cheers,
dalibor topic