On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Cees de Groot wrote:
> Oliver Fels wrote:
>
> > Just for your interest and in case noone has mentioned it yet:
> >
> > Sun is now making the source code to the JavaŽ 2 platform
> > available to the developer community.
> >
>
> Yes, but *please* think twice before committing your soul to Sun!
Isn't Sun worship an ancient tradition? ;)
[snip]
> You can see the openness involved with the SCSL: if they were serious about
> openness, they'd have lifted the restrictions for the Blackdown porting team by
> now. Methinks that with the JCK tests, Blackdown is at the debugging stage and
> that can be perfectly paralellized - hundreds of people on the list would
> gladly jump in. That they haven't done so, shows that Sun, as a corporation, is
> not really committed to a Linux JDK or to openness.
It's been my recent personal experience that Sun have some nasty internal
communications problems, so I suspect it's more likely what we're seeing is
due to sheer incompetence on Sun's part, not malevolence. Of course, in this
day and age everyone suffers from some degree of paranoia, myself included.
Scott
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