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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Read the release notes from Sun on binary compatibility: each release breaks it in one small way or another. If you are lucky, you can continue running your code, if you are not, you need to rewrite it.
Sun released 1.4.2 with a known compatibility test failure according to their release notes.
Just because many people don't notice the problems, doesn't mean they are not there