Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source" 248
An anonymous reader sends along a video from Builder AU, in which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps describes 2001-2002 as 'a period where Sun 'screwed up' in their dealings with the open source community. Phipps says that Sun is trying to remedy the situation with the open sourcing of Java, Solaris, and the rest of Sun's software."
To be fair (Score:4, Funny)
To be fair they wanted to open source the code in Q4 1999, however their Java ftp client just finished loading a few months ago so they couldn't upload the code until just now.
Re:GPL zfs (Score:3, Funny)
Re:2001-2002? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Never too late (Score:5, Funny)
you're saying that has a high percentage of Latter Day Saints among its employees? Or are you being ironic?
meh (Score:3, Funny)
Hmm...
It's alright man. Good to have you with us.
Re:GPL zfs (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Never too late (Score:3, Funny)
Sun is the modern-day Bell Labs.
Re:Never too late (Score:4, Funny)
Re:GPL zfs (Score:1, Funny)
Yes, that's how it happened - it's all Linus's fault. Sun really wanted to contribute ZFS to Linux so much, but the bad, bad Linus cunningly made it impossible for them. What a world.
Re:Never too late (Score:2, Funny)
Re:GPL zfs (Score:3, Funny)