Re: Sun Is Losing Its Way

[micael]

This makes no sense to me. At least you might explain why you think this is so. Sun seems to me to be very different from Microsoft and was very different, good or bad, when the times were good.

At 09:39 PM 12/13/2002 -0500, you wrote:

Sun is exactly what Microsoft would be if it were short a few billion dollars. To think otherwise is to
significantly deceive ones self.

-Andy

Jeff Schnitzer wrote:

On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 06:42:36PM +0200, mohammad nabil wrote:

support Sun, Open Source, and all good manufacturar in our nice world :)

Do you just not grasp that Sun's rigid control of Java is the
antithesis of Open Source, and _especially_ the Apache philosophy?

Try forking the Java codebase sometime. See how fast it takes Sun's lawyers to find you. Want to port Java to a new platform?
Get special permission from Sun, and don't plan on having public
CVS (see the FreeBSD experience).

There's nothing "open" about that.

Jeff

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