Wasn't my quote... That's JS speaking. I just thought it was pertenant. I think volume has alot to do with open standards. Take html for example...
IE and others interpret it differently. Now, IE's volume has allowed them to skew code in thier favor. Taking an open standard, and becoming nonfunctional on other browsers.
AO
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/dev elopment/java/story/0,10801,82286,00.html?nas=AM-8 2286
'Should Java be made fully open-source? The problem with open-source is that [victory] goes to volume, and that's evident in the Linux community today where ISVs [independent software vendors] are qualifying to Red Hat and abandoning everyone else. Why? Because Red Hat has volume.
If Java were open-source, Microsoft could take it, deliver it as they saw fit and drive a definition of Java that was divergent from the one that the community wanted to be compatible. And to the victor would go the spoils of that nefarious action. '
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it works on solaris 10 x86. AO -- supports said sun product
Wasn't my quote... That's JS speaking. I just thought it was pertenant. I think volume has alot to do with open standards. Take html for example... IE and others interpret it differently. Now, IE's volume has allowed them to skew code in thier favor. Taking an open standard, and becoming nonfunctional on other browsers. AO
http://www.computerworld.com/developmenttopics/dev elopment/java/story/0,10801,82286,00.html?nas=AM-8 2286
'Should Java be made fully open-source? The problem with open-source is that [victory] goes to volume, and that's evident in the Linux community today where ISVs [independent software vendors] are qualifying to Red Hat and abandoning everyone else. Why? Because Red Hat has volume.
If Java were open-source, Microsoft could take it, deliver it as they saw fit and drive a definition of Java that was divergent from the one that the community wanted to be compatible. And to the victor would go the spoils of that nefarious action. '