Vincent Rallon at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Costin,
>
> This is what I was told by my friend who works at Sun Micro. Anyone
> developing apps using Java is supposed to pay a royalty per app sold. So if
> you are able to sell 100 items of your app, you're supposed to pay Sun 100 x
> the royalty. How much the royalty is, I don't know.
>
> My friend also told me that not a lot of people pay the royalty.
Wrong... (Kinda like to play the official role here)...
You have to pay a royalty if _and only if_ you want to access our licensing
program... Kinda like that "Designed for Windows" logo you see on many
off-the-shelf boxes in any computer store.
What you pay, in that case, is the price of the logo you want to use (since
that logo is (C) and (R) by Sun Microsystems, INC), the tests, and an awful
lot of advertisement Sun does for you (when we mention our licensees on
nespapers, websites, yadayadayada).
You can still sell your application, and say it is compliant with the J2EE
specification, with Java with whatever you want, without paying Sun a single
penny. You pay money if you want "more"...
It's slightly different for J2EE implementation (per se, if you want to
build a servlet engine, with EJBs and so on), because, if you want to claim
compliancy with the J2EE platform (so applications will run on your J2EE
implementation as they would run on WebLogic, WebSphere, and all the others)
someone _needs_ to certify that (meaning people running tests, and this
costs). Sun can provide you with such a certification, and this will cost.
Pier
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