"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3460137.RvN2qiJVEY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> __/ [ Oliver Wong ] on Wednesday 13 December 2006 15:49 \__
>
>>
>> "John Bailo" <jabailo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:yqKdndRVNfziC-DYnZ2dnUVZ_oninZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>>>> Java SE 6 (Just Released)
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Sun endeavors to foster the highest level of transparency and
>>>> | collaboration on the platform...
>>>
>>> So basically Sun finally admitted that people program alot in
>>> java-script
>>> as well as "ja-va"
>>
>> I don't think Sun has changed their position with respect to
>> JavaScript.
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/
I was aware of Rhino. I meant that Sun had no official stance on
JavaScript (just like they have no official stance of Perl, LISP, or any
other programming language), and that this stance has not changed between
the release of 1.5 and 1.6.
>
> Still, Java and JavaScript are as much alike as Car and Carpet. In due
> course, Sun will probably open-source these other bits of code too.
Well, Rhino is an mozilla project, as can be seen by the URL above, and
so it's already open source. As for Java itself, Sun said they'd finish
releasing everything by mid-2007.
> Same
> with Solaris... just one step at a time... they already lost one valued
> executive who insisted that they should not open-source the whole of Java.
> I
> think that, to him, GPLv2 (going to adopt GPLv3 as well) was the
> bombshell.
From what I read (e.g.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3647781), it's only rumours
which say that Graham left Sun due to the GPL thing. Neither Sun nor Graham
have made an official statement on the matter. (If you've heard differently,
let me know). Personally, I'm skeptical. Making Java GPL seems like a pretty
silly reason to quit your job to me. While it may have contributed to
Graham's decision, I suspect there were probably other factors, and the GPL
thing was just another straw on the camel's back (and not nescessarily the
one which broke said back).
- Oliver
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