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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"The real issue is that java is an asset that SUN does not want to lose control over, but having java in the control of a company that is probably going the way of SCO in a few years gives some people the creeps."
I don't have a crystal ball, so I can't say SCO is going to disappear (although I wish they would), and even less Sun.
But I don't see how open-sourcing Java would diminish Sun's risk and/or the risk for its users, compared to the present licensing situation.
In fact, I think it's strange to see Sun employees spreading FUD (or at least the U in FUD) about one of their top strategic technologies.
But after all it may be just plain and simple incompetence.