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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"Also, reimplementing everything from scratch instead of using Sun's code as a starting point increases the risk of subtle incompatibilities."
Sun doesn't want you, as a user, to reimplement anything from scratch. They want you to use their version of Java.
Suppose I am at the decision-making stage of $10 million software project to reimplement a corporate payroll in Java. The thing is going to run on Sun hardware because that's what we have been using and we are happy with it.
Which one do you think I'll choose, Sun's Java or any other Java, whether open-sourced and freely forkable or not, enhanced or not?