Star Open Letter to Sun: The Case for Open-Sourcing Java
Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
Java 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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Re: Open Source != Standardization
by clausi on Sat 5th Jun 2004 10:03 UTC

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.

Unfortunatly, this does not only hold for the Java-OpenSource question but also for Solaris x86 and Linux support, jumping from "Yes" to "No" to "Don't know" and back to "Yes".

I wouldn't buy Sun shares.