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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I don't see many new arguments but i do recognize a new element: GNOME. SUN is supporting GNOME with developers (from SUN UK) so this does more to them than something which is far away remotely related to SUN somehow.
It also reminds be about ESR's letter. ESR wrote: "Let Java go" as his title. This is different than SUN open-sourcing or free softwaring Java. Their Sun Java.
The point is, when Sun would support a Java implementation directly with a few developers, allow ie. Blackdown to be open-sourced and still called Java, or freeing the Java _trademark_ the possibility these would be included in a Linux distribution and GNOME using that one are increased hence SUN's name increases as well.
The problem isn't with SUN's license of SUN Java, the problem lies in the trademark.
What about Blackdown. Would the developers behind Blackdown allow their version to be ie. GPLed when SUN would agree with that?