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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Ahem, if you'd kindly point out these alleged errors....
If you can come up with an actual major error that I haven't mentioned, I will fully accept your criticism. (Unfortunately, that’s a rhetorical comment, because I’ve already done a thorough check.)
Not that thorough -- although I am pleased you caught what you did.
I'm pretty sure that ". . .either you or Sun has been following . . ." is wrong; but I'm not 100% positive, so skip that one.
". . .would back it . . .as the building blocks of the Linux desktop" -- I trust the error here is clear. Yes, the part I snipped included two things (C and C++), but the "as the building blocks" has to refer back to Java as well. The solution is to not refer to "building blocks" or "the building block" or anything like that.
And for that matter, that entire sentence is one huge run-on.
"after all, the Java VM doesn't just not care what DE you're using, it doesn't care what OS or CPU either!" is absolutely horrendous diction.
"Microsoft would have to be payed for the licensing!" . . .you meant "paid."
"Otherwise, I fear MS technology will infiltrate its way into even the purest MS-free zone" is redundant; `infiltrate' implies `into.' You meant "I fear MS technology will infiltrate even the purest..."
I'm sorry if it seems like I'm giving you a hard time. Frankly, I'm glad that you took the time to express your opinion to the friendly folks at Sun. I simply want your letter to be at its most effective, since I'd also like to see Java open-sourced. But we will all be taken seriously only to the extent that we communicate well.