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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I am glad you responded with excellent points. I was just trying to fend of OSS zealots who have never been involved in large scale projects and claim that there are automatisms involved just by the virtue of the open source nature of a project.
All good software takes time to mature, some succeed, some become festering piles that need to be rewritten.
I would like to join the efforts but my area of interest at this time is Operating system internals, however I will dust off my programming language book and begin the learning process. I will also get the source and documentation for Classpath and check it out.
Again all the best. I am glad that developers are still devlopers and haven't converted to becoming politicians.