Simon Phipps <webmink at sun.com> wrote:
> If you are totally frustrated by this fact, the source code is freely
> available under the CDDL and you are completely free to develop it
> under your own rules elsewhere. I would rather have your passion and
> skill in the same community as my colleagues, but you are free to do
> so at any time. That's the other thing open source is about.
If I develop useful fixes and enhancements but Sun is not interested in
collaboration, there is a problem that demotivates people from the community
outside Sun.
True OpenSource is more than throwing things over the fence.
J?rg
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