Thursday August 17, 2006 SE Thought
Iwan 'e1' Rahabok
Thursday August 17, 2006
OpenSource: double standard? I seem to be missing the point here.... Appreciate enlightenment or correction.
In a recent c|net interview, an IBM Senior VP states that there is a risk of open sourcing Power. It could lead to forking or incompatibility.
"And making IBM's Power processors an open-source project poses risks,
Handy said. Specifically, the freedoms of an open-source approach could
mean others take the processors in a different direction, so software
wouldn't necessarily run on all models.
"You don't want the architecture to not be compatible with itself moving forward," Handy said."
Hmmm.... then why IBM pressures Sun to opensource Java, when there is a risk of compabitility? BTW, the Java source code is actually available, so it's not the source code that IBM is after. So what exactly is IBM after? And why the same agenda can't be applied on Power?Like I said above, I seem to be missing the fundamental. Correction (supported by facts) would be really appreciated.
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