Linux.com

Sun is seriously twisted

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 18, 2005 11:04 PM
It does seem that Sun knows the right thing to do. They know that infrastructure components should be open and they've opened up many of their projects in the past. They've done the right thing with OOo: they dual-license it and sell and support a closed-source product based on the OOo code.

So why won't they just do that with Java?

I wish they would quit all this ridiculous PR BS and just answer that question honestly. I mean, if the answer is 'we need the money' I could respect that a lot more than all this posturing. Sheesh.

#

Return to Sun's new licenses: 'Closed open source'