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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Really, how much money does the open source community have?. Why don't all of you clammouring for Sun to open source java just show SUN the money. Sun's a business like IBM or GM or Amgen and they need to be able to make money off their products. Making Java free isn't going to provide any revenue to Sun. Case in point, why is there a Donate via Paypal button on Apache's website or Mozilla's website?. It's because not enough money is being made by these organizations using the prescribed methods of making money via support and selling t-shirts and coffee-mugs.