Open-Sourcing Java Will Create Incompatibility Risk, Sun Exec Warns

Open-Sourcing Java Will Create Incompatibility Risk, Sun Exec WarnsInteresting article from eWeek that highlights the challenges confronting Sun when trying to figure out under what open source license to release Java: Open-Sourcing Java Will Create Incompatibility Risk, Sun Exec Warns Sun’s Simon Phipps seems to argue against the fundamental principles of openness in open source when he defends a more restrictive license for […] 05/25/2006 09:54:09

Interesting article from eWeek that highlights the challenges confronting Sun when trying to figure out under what open source license to release Java:

Sun's Simon Phipps seems to argue against the fundamental principles of openness in open source when he defends a more restrictive license for Java by referring to that big competitors (read: Microsoft) might fork the Java code into incompatibility.

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