Proprietary Java

Proprietary Java

Posted Feb 11, 2007 10:00 UTC (Sun) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris by drag
Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Yeah, true. I used to troll in a Spanish Java forum; to annoy people there all you had to do was to ask Sun to free their implementation, and then they all repeated like parrots that it had no advantages, that it did not matter to anyone, that Microsoft would make incompatible versions, that the sky would fall upon their heads if they did.

Now, when Sun announced they were going to release Java 7 under the GPL most of them were just astonished and didn't say anything; the rest congratulated Sun on having such a great vision and generosity and warm hearts. It was amazing to watch!

Most people don't care for consistency, they just want a cozy environment. Sad but understandable.

---

(Log in to post comments)