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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"That said, it would be in SUNs best interest to open source java. An incompatible fork will not happen because it would be useless for the huge amount of existing java code. How many different forks are there for python, perl, php? If the fork doomsayers were right, there would be hundreds of different incopatible forks of all these languages."
That's because python it's not called Perl-made-better, but Python. There are lot's of new languages that are forks of others, but use new names.