Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on May 14, 2005 11:35 AM
"Sun had already announced in March that it is loosening up the licensing requirements for J2SE anyway. This is the next logical step."
Well that's nice, but it seems that the "lockin" which got argued over on the OO thread. Is being unable to fork any time you don't like what so and so has done. A favoured tactic in OSS. Plus not being able to call your fork "Java". The licenses don't have anything to worry about, because they're buying more than just a language. But as MS demonstrated. A language backed by consistency, enforced by a legal structure. Something OSS doesn't have.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on May 14, 2005 11:35 AMWell that's nice, but it seems that the "lockin" which got argued over on the OO thread. Is being unable to fork any time you don't like what so and so has done. A favoured tactic in OSS. Plus not being able to call your fork "Java". The licenses don't have anything to worry about, because they're buying more than just a language. But as MS demonstrated. A language backed by consistency, enforced by a legal structure. Something OSS doesn't have.
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