And Sun a calling themselves pro-open source?

Posted May 10, 2005 1:56 UTC (Tue) by bk (guest, #25617)
In reply to: And Sun a calling themselves pro-open source? by bojan
Parent article: A proposal for a free Java implementation

Sun isn't pro-open source, they're pro-Sun. Obviously since there is a lot of people asking for free Java, there must be some value in Java. Therefore "giving it away" would be a poor business decision on their part, at least in the classic sense.

The only thing that will change this is to commodify the JVM by developing a free implementation. Then Sun will have nothing to lose by opening up their code. At that point, however, it will hardly matter.