Journal psykocrime's Journal: Sun joins OSDL, talks about open-sourcing Java
Sun is making a lot of noise in the open source world today. First, they have
joined OSDL, becoming the last of the four major server manufacturers to do so. Sun also seems to be giving real thought to the possiblities of open-sourcing Java. In this article, Jonathan Schwartz, Sun's executive vice president for software, had this to say:
"Sun Software Chief Technology Officer John Fowler has launched discussions of making Java an open-source project, a move Sun would make "to promote innovation and distribution," Schwartz said. "The main appeal open source has for the developer community is that folks love to noodle...What open source tends to do more than anything else is it tends to spark innovation."
The main hangup seems to be the fear of a certain company from Redmond. From the article:
it won't happen anytime soon, though, because of the risk that Microsoft would adopt the technology, then undermine it unchecked because of its immense distribution capability, he said. "When we out-ship Windows in desktop volume, we will look very seriously at open-sourcing Java on the desktop," he said.
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