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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Get over it. I don't care about Sun's code, I'm working on making a free software runtime and class libraries that are better in every sense: freedom, performance, quality.
If you want free software Java, join in the fun. Begging Sun has not helped so far, it's just a waste of time. Sun knows pretty well what free software is, and what open source means. It's their own code, they can do as they wish. Meanwhile, we'll continue pushing ahead where no Sun's code has been before and reducing the need to download that non-free piece of software, till it's just another legacy application like Sun's C compiler
To give you a similar example: had Linus Torvalds waited for Unix to become open source, he'd still wait. So if you want better free software java implementations today rather than tomorrow, join the fine people working on GNU Classpath.
cheers,
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