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The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time
Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is carrying a story by Richard Stallman which blasts Sun's recent Java move, claiming it is deceptive and self-serving, makes Java neither free nor even open source, and leaves him wondering why it has attracted so much attention."
I thought only Microsoft was run by the undead.
Totally not true. The undead actually pursue people with brains.
"You will pay for your lack of vision..." - Emperor Palpatine to Ray Charles
If it wasn't for these occasional diatribes from him we wouldn't even know this guy still existed...
"Richard Stallman Denies He's Irrelevant, Again!"
Does he have to criticize every other license under the SUN?!?! Apparently, yes.
Rob Enderle's excellent new book: Everything I needed to know about Computer Science I learned in Marketing School
Because google needed an excuse for a new logo?
Why didn't he say "ACD/The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time"?
Doesn't he realize how much ACD contributed to his headline? Why doesn't he do the right thing and put ACD/ in front?
Yeah, that's why I never use Python, Ruby, Scheme, Lua, Perl, Sed, Awk, m4, sh, batch files, etc: Someone might add pointers to them one day, and if that happened, I'm afraid I wouldn't be able to control myself, and then I might end up falling off the no-pointers wagon. I just can't accept that risk.
With Perl 6 coming out, we will be able to compile and execute bytecode with Parrot. I see the need for Java being opensourced coming to an end with the release of the next version of Perl.
Worse yet ... someone might add operator overloading! And you'll be able to concatenate strings with the addition operator! Anarchy!
Oh wait, they did that already? But isn't operator overloading evil?
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.