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ESR's Open Letter to McNealy: Set Java Free!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the let-my-people-go dept.

yukster writes "Eric Raymond has posted an open letter to Sun Microsystem's Scott McNealy asking him to 'Let Java go.' He says Sun can 'have ubiquity or [it] can have control.' The excellent improvements made to Java in the upcoming 1.5 release help re-level the playing field with C#. But, it seems like if Sun really wants Java to rule the world, they should heed ESR's advice. Hey Mr. McNealy, listen to this guy... set Java free!"

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  1. It's not gonna happen! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Java is a major part of Sun, and they're not going to give that up, ever. While they'll be as open as necessary (Java Community Process, free access to view source code of Java, etc), they stop at giving up corporate control of Java.

    Microsoft are just the same with C#, they're just being slightly more deceitful about it -- they try and say C# is "more open" than Java, but when it comes down to it, both languages and frameworks are owned by their corporate master.

  2. Silence the messenger by roman_mir · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is not that this post was that important, it is just the feeling of inertia and indifference that is so unfortunate (unwilling to give a stronger word here.)

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    You can't handle the truth.