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Simon Phipps on the Process of Opening Java

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the sniff-the-air-from-the-vacuum-can dept.

twofish writes "Simon Phipps, the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, has reaffirmed Sun's commitment to Open Source in an interview with computerworld. The focus of the interview is Simon's efforts to fully open source Java. He points out that many problems need to be resolved before Java can be open sourced — ownership, legal, access, encumbrances and relationships with Java licensees. It took Sun a full five years to solve these issues with Solaris. However Simon predicts that it won't take anything near this amount of time to complete the task with Java. Of course, one of the other concerns for OS Java is the resulting incompatible versions and breaking of the Java WORA model (Gosling himself has always been particularly concerned about incompatible forks resulting in the introduction of an open source version of Java) and this opens up additional problems for the open source Java model."

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  1. capitalist patsy by P3NIS_CLEAVER · · Score: 1, Funny

    about time you capitalist patsy!

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  2. Bizarro version by Jonboy+X · · Score: 3, Funny

    Simon Phipps, the chief open-source officer at Sun Microsystems, has reaffirmed Sun's waning commitment to Open Source in an interview with some dude in bar over the weekend. "Sun tried the free-software thing. The end result was: Dirty hippies can run Solaris on their crappy little x86 boxes for free, and our stock is still circling the drain. Sun learned their lesson, and my job is rapidly being deprecated. I'll be folding sweaters at the Gap before Thanksgiving."

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  3. I think they mean the "WODE" model. by Valdrax · · Score: 2, Funny

    Write-Once, Debug Everywhere.

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  4. Re:As a web app developer... by Reverend528 · · Score: 4, Funny

    AJAX and DHTML are terrible for writing web servers. That's why I write all of my web applications in javascript and XUL. It takes only a small amount of rdf to turn firefox into a full-featured web server, and the pages it serves are pretty much guaranteed to look good in any gecko-based browser. Though, every once and a while the server experiences problems when someone ignores the post-it-note on the monitor and starts using the it to read slashdot.

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  5. I've already opened Java by jamesjw · · Score: 2, Funny


    I've already opened Java
    And I can tell you the lid reads "WARNING: HOT CONTENTS"

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