On Feb 19, 1:42 pm, Tor Norbye <[email protected]> wrote: > > Releasing it is not going to be easy. There's a whole open source > review thing you've gotta go through when you open source stuff - it > took a long time for the JDK, and there's a cost to it. Plus in the VB > area there might be legal issues as well... > > -- Tor >
There is an obvious strategic goodness to that end goal of assisting VB to run in the Java ecosystem. But, I have studied that outbound open source review process quite extensively when I was at Sun. It is a daunting process to get stuff to be open sourced @ Sun. That's one of the things which make me wonder about the seriousness with which Sun is taking 'Open Source'. Okay so there are a lot of valid business concerns in that process however many of the questions you have to answer in that process strike me as holdovers from an era before Jonathan began pushing the company into the open source world. However the biggest cost in the process was screening the code to ensure Sun holds rights to everything sufficient to license under an open source license. A shortcut on that specific cost comes if every line of code was written by a Sun employee as then Sun obviously has the required rights. Legal issues ...hmm... yeah, Microsoft might have a patent or two against VB don't'cha think? Sigh. - David --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
