Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Jul 2006 16:20 UTC, submitted by Stephen
Sun was quick to deny published reports today that it plans to open source Java in the next few months. The company is working on the project, but any transition to open source is closer to a year away. Simon Phipps, chief open-source officer for Sun, made a comment he said was misconstrued at the Open Source Business Conference in London earlier this week concerning Sun's efforts to release Java as an entirely open source project.
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2005-07-06
If they're quick to deny it it usually means it's
1) True
or
2) Has legal implications
or
3) Someone's going to get fired
In this particular case, all three are definitely not true. Just like Solaris, opening Java will take a while, and it should.
No one will be fired except maybe the journalist that twisted Simon's words so much that it was blatantly false by the time he published the article.