Thursday May 18, 2006 No Monopoly on Good
There I was thinking we'd done something useful and good, getting the DLJ written and decent packages produced for Java SE 5 on GNU/Linux and OpenSolaris, and not pretending it was open source Java yet. I understand there's a lot of history here, but for goodness sake give me a break and see it for what it is, a positive token of good-will and intent to deliver in a new context despite the prejudices of history and the tensions they've produced. If there are issues with DLJ I'll address them, but there's no monopoly on good.
Posted by webmink
( May 18 2006, 11:38:19 PM PDT )
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Wow! And the version of NetBeans that won wasn't even the latest, 5.5, which is at least an order of magnitude better.
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My guest editorial for JavaLobby covers the new DLJ
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Blue moon; pigs fly; 3 Redmonks...
Posted by webmink
( May 18 2006, 06:17:58 PM PDT )
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Plays Well With Others
I had a great time at DebConf over the weekend, where Tom Marble and I were working with several members of the Debian and Ubuntu communities to get the packages and press release ready for the announcement of the Distro License for Java. The DebConf folks were great, even to the point of keeping the news community-confidential after I announced it to them on Monday at lunchtime.
So, does this co-operation mean Sun is "Inching towards Debian"? Does it imply we are "making a partial move" and perhaps implying we're ditching OpenSolaris? That's the way eWeek and InfoWorld would want to see it, if their headlines about Eclipse today are anything to go by. Terri Molini has it right:
It is an easy mistake to make since Sun is involved in so many open source communities such as FireFox, Apache Derby, GNOME, and OpenOffice.org. But it is still a mistake to confuse generosity with a change in company strategy.
Apart from perhaps a little too much excitement, Mike is right to characterise this as "good sense" rather than "strategy shift". I'm keen for Sun to "play well with others", but doing so says nothing about our top-level strategy.
Posted by webmink
( May 18 2006, 03:22:14 PM PDT )
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