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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Hmm, just a few questions that haven't really been answered.
I'm a java developer, what do I get out of an open sourced Java? I run FreeBSD and use eclipse on many different operating systems. My apps work on many platforms. What are my benefits of an open sourced Java?
Sun is a company, they make money. What do they get out of an open source Java? Just losing the Sun and Java go together in one sentence as Intel and Windows. What does Sun get out of it if someone in ten years says "oh yeah, once upon a time Sun invented Java".
What does the Linux community get out of it? Java works as is right now. We can all write Java apps right now. But it would be political win for Linux is it was opensourced.
Ack, I'm ranting and scratching my head at all this stuff, I'm going back to coding....hare bra.