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
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