Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 8th May 2008 19:13 UTC
When Sun announced it would offer certain plugins and features for enterprise customers only, and maybe even make them closed-source, the open source community was up in arms. It seems that MySQL and Sun have listened to the criticism, as these plans are now off the table. In fact, these plans did not originate within Sun in the first place.
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2007-07-27
It was MySQL that earlier had decided to close some parts of the source. SUN didnt want that, and tried to convince MySQL to remain open. And SUN succeeded in that. That MySQL remains open, is only because of SUN.
And regarding opening Java, SUN had to prove that SUN owned and had produced every line of code. Therefore it took so long before Java got open.
And SUN tried to ISO-certificate Java, but Microsoft hindered that. The reason Java is not ISO-certified, is because of Microsoft. Here is the link to that fact:
http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/2007/09/microsoft-conde.html