Simon Phipps on the Process of Opening Java 152
twofish writes "Simon Phipps, the chief open-source officer
at Sun Microsystems, has reaffirmed Sun's
commitment to Open Source in an interview
with computerworld.
The focus of the interview is Simon's efforts to fully open source Java.
He points out that many problems need to be resolved before
Java can be open sourced — ownership, legal, access, encumbrances and relationships
with Java licensees. It took Sun a full five years to solve these issues with
Solaris. However Simon predicts that it won't take anything near this amount
of time to complete the task with Java.
Of course, one of the other concerns for OS Java is the resulting incompatible
versions and breaking of the Java WORA
model (Gosling himself has always been particularly concerned about incompatible
forks resulting in the introduction of an open source version of Java) and this opens
up additional problems for the open source Java model."
capitalist patsy (Score:1, Funny)
Bizarro version (Score:4, Funny)
I think they mean the "WODE" model. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:As a web app developer... (Score:5, Funny)
I've already opened Java (Score:3, Funny)
I've already opened Java
And I can tell you the lid reads "WARNING: HOT CONTENTS"