Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 1st May 2006 16:04 UTC
New Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz's first 100 days at the helm are about to get interesting. First up: managing an internal debate over whether the company should open-source Java. According to sources inside Sun, an ongoing debate over whether to open-source Java is coming to a head with the JavaOne conference looming May 16.
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2006-05-02
From the article:
Peter Yared [...] said the big question is how Java benefits Sun's shareholders today, especially since "Sun doesn't make any money on it," he said.
If this is true then Sun should abandon Java at all, and then it could become a community supported project that simply died if no one continued to contribute to it. No reason for Sun to throw any money at it.
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