A Brief History of Sun by Groklaw's grouch (Groklaw)

A Brief History of Sun by Groklaw's grouch (Groklaw)

Posted May 8, 2008 17:53 UTC (Thu) by TRS-80 (subscriber, #1804)
Parent article: A Brief History of Sun by Groklaw's grouch (Groklaw)

Sun is definitely improving their open source efforts, but they still have a way to go. Also, the various parts of Sun have varying levels of integration with their communities - the best ones are where Sun didn't contribute most of the original code, JDS gets along very well with GNOME for example. On the other hand you have OpenOffice, which despite being LGPL for 5 years, has major features in ooo-build, ready for upstream integration, that are just ignored. And let's not get started on trademarks, although the OpenJDK(tm) license seems somewhat sane.

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