Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
This was a letter I recently wrote to Sun's head of global communications, Russ Castronovo, after reading his interview with Chuck Talk on orangecrate.com, and then reading the ongoing pro-/anti-Mono arguments over at PlanetGnome. Now that Sun seems to be on the brink of making the decision to open-source Java (or not to), I thought it would be an appropriate time to take action.
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I think you are correct on all counts.
The fact is that Sun wants to keep control of Java for strategic reasons. Plus the fact that open-sourcing Java will not bring any additional revenue (and would create a risk of losing some).
In this light I see their contradictory statements about open-sourcing Java as bad management: it confuses users and hurts Sun's image. It shows that Sun has lost its sense of direction.