On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 01:36:29PM +0800, lito lampitoc wrote: > "The open-source community has been hearing reports that you have > recently said of Sun Microsystem's strategy "The open-source model is > our friend". We're glad to hear that, and Sun's support of > OpenOffice.org certainly puts some weight behind the claim. But that > support is curiously inconsistent, spotty in ways which suggests that > Sun is confused in the way it thinks about and executes its open-source > strategy.
While I appreciate what ESR's doing, it's unlikely that Sun will open up Java anytime soon. First, the only reason they bought StarOffice and opened it up was to harm Microsoft. There's no other explanation for paying $250M for something and then releasing it for free. As for Java, they're making money from it. IBM makes more money selling services around it, but the bottom line is that Sun doesn't understand the services business. GPL'ing a program, regardless of what people say, immediately ends the profit potential for that piece of software. Sun knows this, and they still want to make money from Java. I have no problem with Sun doing that, I just wish they'd quit trying to blur the lines between what they're doing with Java and true open source software. Michael -- Michael Darrin Chaney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.michaelchaney.com/ -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
