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Gosling on Opening Java
An anonymous reader writes "It sounds like James Gosling's nudging Sun closer and closer toward open-sourcing Java, as requested variously by IBM,
Eric S. Raymond, and Richard Stallman, though not by JBoss's Marc Fleury. 'Developers value Java's cross platform interoperability and reliability,' Gosling writes, adding 'If we do something to make Java even more open-source than it is already, having safeguards to protect the developer community will be something we pay a lot of attention to.' Surprisingly, 'the creator of the Java programming language,' as Sun usually calls him, seems to be at odds on this issue with his own CEO, Scott McNealy. So, who should have custody of the child, the father...or the boss?"
Two problems: 1, I can't really fork Java I think Sun is killing it. 2. That test-suite should then be publicly availble, so Joe Hacker can test his YAJ-compiler-etc against the suite. But who cares? It's not like there is a lack of languages out there, and Java lacks some pretty vital stuff anyhow (e.g fork() --- and forking the JVM is not really a solution).
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