Forgot to mention the URL:
http://java.sun.com/features/2001/07/oscon01.html
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 09:49:30AM -0700, Nathan Meyers wrote:
> Sun's Java Web site recently posted its own spin on the Microsoft/Open
> Source debate at the O'Reilly Open Source conference. Among the more
> provocative assertions from Sun's "Open Source Diva", Danese Cooper,
> is this:
>
> Sun doesn't claim Sun's Community Source Licensing (SCSL) is open
> source, because we understand that it isn't. Our choices for Java
> technology were made to protect a technology from some well-known
> industry predators, and we have stated that we can see a day when
> it will be sufficiently unprofitable to write incompatible clones
> of Java technology. When that happens, we will be able to make it
> fully open source. We will open Java technology when it's possible
> for us to do so. We've said that before, and we're saying it now.
>
> Nathan Meyers
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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