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Sun Spokesman Says "We Screwed Up On Open Source"

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the we-know-we-know dept.

An anonymous reader sends along a video from Builder AU, in which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps describes 2001-2002 as 'a period where Sun 'screwed up' in their dealings with the open source community. Phipps says that Sun is trying to remedy the situation with the open sourcing of Java, Solaris, and the rest of Sun's software."

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  1. To be fair by Frogbert · · Score: 4, Funny

    To be fair they wanted to open source the code in Q4 1999, however their Java ftp client just finished loading a few months ago so they couldn't upload the code until just now.

  2. Re:Never too late by somersault · · Score: 4, Funny

    you're saying that has a high percentage of Latter Day Saints among its employees? Or are you being ironic?

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    which is totally what she said
  3. Re:GPL zfs by y86 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sun contributed 312 million Euro's worth of FOSS which amounts to over 51000 person months. This was 44% of all corporate contributions to FOSS. That's why I bought 50 shares of "JAVA". It's 10$ and it's a good company overall.
  4. Re:Never too late by jdfox · · Score: 3, Funny

    I prefer to think of it as a mnemnonic.

  5. Re:GPL zfs by larry+bagina · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Everybody should share. That's why I won't share with you".

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    Do you even lift?

    These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.