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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Before Sun goes ahead with it, they should seriously ask themselves “Will Sun Microsystems benefit financially if Java (tm) becomes GNU open source?" Will there be any benefits? I think open sourecing Java is a bad idea as Sun may very easily lose control of their technology as more and more companies and individuals will dig into the source code and release their own versions of Java. Linux is a proven concept that works but Sun should be very careful with Java because it may turn out that "other" companies that will modify Java will be profitiring while Sun will gain nothing.