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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