Interesting 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:
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 Java by referring to that big competitors (read: Microsoft) might fork the Java code into incompatibility.
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