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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why does java need to be open source anyway, it looks like the open source community has decided to start embracing .NET although .NET is much more closed than Java.
Sun would have to dual-license it since java is the core of its software business.
its just a programming language and theres a community process and everything looks open enough to me.
i think IBM just dosen't want to pay a license for Java.