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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Open Sourcing Java is not the answer. The only thing it will solve is that the free software purists will be happy and quit slamming Sun in public essays and Open Letters. Java is Open enough, the only restriction in the Java license is that you have got to undergo Suns test suite to enusre compatibility. If Java wins on technical merits then great, if .NET proves to be the superior language then .NET will win. There is no problem with Suns licensing, just the Stamanites just dont like it. Mind you, right now the Java language is crap according to the same people who want it open sourced. If Sun does Open Source Java then suddenly it will be the greatest thing since peanut butter and jelly.