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Will Sun Open Source Java?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the free-coffee dept.

capt turnpike writes "According to eWEEK.com, there's an internal debate going on at Sun whether to open-source Java. (Insert typical response: "It's about time!") Company spokespersons have no official comment, as might be expected, but perhaps we could hear confirmation or denial as early as May 16, at the JavaOne conference. One commentator said, "Sun should endorse PHP and go one step forward and make sure the 'P' languages run great on the JVM [Java virtual machine] by open-sourcing Java." Would this move Java up the desirability scale in your eyes? Could this be a way to help improve what's lacking in Java?"

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  1. Are you kidding me? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Open sourcing Java? Are you kidding me? Chaos would reign. Every month new features would crop up and we have to keep learning and learning and learning. Look at Ruby on Rails, new features every couple of days. Nobody can keep up.

    No no no. Let Sun handle Java.

  2. "Sun should endorse PHP" by oSand · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, because what the world needs is more php.

  3. Personally I don't want Java open-sourced by layer3switch · · Score: 5, Funny

    I fear, some smart ass Java programmer will fork off the Java OpenSource and give some crackpot name like "Javalava" or "JavaJ" or "JuJu Bean" or "Grande Capacino"

    I am scared...

    --
    "Don't let fools fool you. They are the clever ones."
  4. Re:No by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The next time I look at another configured by altering it's code, hard tied to MySQL, non-tiered POS LAMP application, I'm going to cry.

    Of course, any equivalent app in Java would have more lines of opaque XML configuration than the "POS LAMP application" has code. It will also be slower, eat several times as much memory, and depend on specific versions of two dozen frameworks.

    The Rails version, OTOH, would be about 4 lines long and deployed before the Java guys managed to fire up their Eclipse bloatware. It would, however, be about the same speed as the Java app.

    The Lisp version would never fail, would have source code in the form of a haiku, could tell the future and control the weather. It will never be written because all those parentheses look funny.

  5. Re:Amazon is not LAMP by XaXXon · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, that is remarkably accurate *AND* has a nice acronym.

    I'm very impressed.

    Next time there's an outage, we'll say we ran out of COAL :)

  6. Re:If they do, it will all depend upon the license by Bastard+of+Subhumani · · Score: 5, Funny
    If Sun were to GPL Java, it would be unstoppable.
    Java programs already run for ever.
    --
    Only three things are certain; death, taxes, and apocryphal quotations - Ben Franklin.