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James Gosling On The Sun/Microsoft Settlement

Posted by timothy on from the horse's-mouth dept.

greg_barton writes "James Gosling has responded to the two previous commentaries cited on Slashdot about the Java Dilemma. Some interesting excerpts: "In Rick Ross's 'Where Is Java In This Settlement?' he worries that Sun may have sold out the Java community. We didn't. We have not sold our soul to the Dark Side." and "There's a long thread of discussion on Slashdot 'Two Takes on the Java Dilemma' that is pretty entertaining, from a wow, what are they smoking! point of view. There are voices of reason, and conspiracy nuts.""

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  1. I have to wonder what gosling is smoking... by RLiegh · · Score: 1, Troll

    since he's apparently overlooked the halloween memos from Microsoft stating that they would be causing as much disruption in the open source community as possible.

    Wether the speculation is true or not, it's certainly not unfounded.

  2. Ultimately Sun is dead anyway by mwfolsom · · Score: 1, Troll

    With the announcement of this settlement and the death of its processor development Sun enters the DEC glidepath to oblivion.

    If you stick a fork in it - today it will still scream but give it a year or so and its all over.

    Linux and the AMD Opteron make them irrelevant.