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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It doesn't matter whether Sun makes its Java libraries Free software or not.
What matters is if Sun embraces the Free software community or not. They need to say, "You GNU guys & gals are doing a great job with GCJ/Kaffe/Classpath. We want you to succeed. We want to see Java used with GNOME."
They need to blatantly advertise the details of how their Java patents can be used Freely with GNU GPL'd software. Embrace friendly competition with the Free software community.
If they did that -- and Eben Moglen & RMS were satisfied -- it would be the beginning of the end for .NET and we'd see Java in GNOME.