"Kevin A. Burton" wrote:
> > On Don, 26 Okt 2000 Kevin A. Burton wrote:
> >
> > --<snip>--
> >
> > >I am not sure I even want SUNs help in the Free Software/Java community. They
> > >have screwed a lot of thigns up. I would just rather see Kaffe/GJC/Classpath go
> > >their logical directions and not have SUN involved. If they want to make Java
> > >Free Software then good but I don't think the community should hold their
> breath...
>
> Good point... :). If SUN were serious they would violate all those stupid NDAs
> they asked people to sign. SUN is just another big stupid company IMO. Nothing
> different than Microsoft/Oracle. If you want bugfixes for Solaris (in some
> situations) you have to sign an NDA.
They're not serious, the NDAs are safe. My favorite Sun quote was one a while back from
a manager who said that their stuff is essentially open source - up to the moment you
ship it! Words, like "open source", that have concrete meaning to technical listeners
have very different meaning in marketing wars.
Nathan
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