Re: [SLUG] Sun screws Open Source beta community (again)

From: R P Herrold (herrold@owlriver.com)
Date: Mon Feb 25 2002 - 15:25:18 EST


On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, Russell Hires wrote:

> Yes, but what about Java? That's the big rose-bush in the side of many a
> Linux guru: pretty to look at, but those thorns...Linux Magazine is talking
> up Java as if it's the great saviour, somehow they have the idea that Linux
> has a co-dependent relationship with Java. How do we walk away from that? Is
> it even there to walk away from?

What about it? Sun is currently freezing out the Apache Java
re-implementation under Apache (SBD-like) license from
certification -- More of the same from Sun.

I repeat:

> > walk. The Open Source community needs to walk away from them
> > -- to continue to think [Sun] are good guys ... is naive

-- Russ herrold



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