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Sun's Simon Phipps Answers ESR On Java

Posted by timothy on from the lots-of-air-moving dept.

comforteagle writes "Sun's Chief Technology Officer Simon Phipps has answered Eric Raymond's open letter calling on Sun to open source Java." In the quoted response, Phipps says (condensed) "I'd say this is 100 per cent rant... His simplistic accusations don't hold water... If this is the way that Open Source treats its friends, I'd hate to see how it treats its enemies... It's pretty difficult to respond to this. He's so out of touch."

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  1. Re:I say yeah! by Delirium+Tremens · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What is the problem, really?
    The Java VM and language specs are out there. Anyone is free to implement them and released their source as Open Source. So, _ w-h-a-t _ i-s _ t-h-e _ d-e-a-l ?

  2. Re:Open Source better off without ESR by nate1138 · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Java is already irrelevant to Free Software

    Hmm, you may want to tell that to the developers over at the Jakarta Project.

    I use Open Source (Linux, Apache, MySQL) every single day, and I happen to do most of my development in Java. There are TONS of open source components that use Java.

    How about IBM? You don't think that Java matters to them? What about Eclipse? Pure Java (and a great IDE for just about any language). Next time, think before you open your mouth.

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    Where's my lobbyist? Right here.