Star Open Letter to Sun: The Case for Open-Sourcing Java
Linked by Michael Klein on Sat 5th Jun 2004 06:48 UTC
Java 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.
E-mail Print r 0   · Read More · 62 Comment(s) http://osne.ws/5m2
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
re: clueless
by Shapeshifter V.90 on Sun 6th Jun 2004 02:15 UTC

I personally have been doing this with many Swing objects (JList, JTextArea, etc.) by writting my own implementation that subclasses them and then slip them into my existing code.

The problem is that other applications don't benefit from this, which sucks, unless everyone uses your subclassed objects. ;( Why go to all that effort if there's only a few bugs in the class? Why not just fix the bug and submit a patch for it, end of story? 'Cuz yah can't. ;)