Wednesday August 16, 2006 links for 2006-08-17
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Not a bad report, although I didn't say I preferred CDDL for any future open source Java project.
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This one focuses on the portal. I actually think we're going pretty fast, rather than inching, but I can understand that people used to rule-by-decree will find the process slow.
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Coverage in a Websphere publication - must be big news.
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First of two stories by this writer trying his best to cast a darker spin on the whole proceedings. While only programmers with the calling to work on the JDK will be excited, once it's all open source it will have a big impact by just being.
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This one's closer to the point, which is that the impact of an open JDK will be who can distribute it and how it can be used rather than how many people choose to participate in the source code that it comprises.
Posted by webmink
( Aug 16 2006, 06:17:40 PM PDT )
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Constructive Spirit
The news I mentioned yesterday, that Sun will open source all of its Java implementations, is all over the media today, as you'd expect. However, the comments that are especially important to me are not from journalists or competitors but from the existing Java open source communities. In every single case, I have seen constructive and helpful comments. Here are some examples:
- Geir Magnusson (Apache Harmony)
- Dalibor Topic (Kaffe - thanks for the JDK patch, Dalibor!)
- Tom Tromey (GNU/Classpath)
- Mark Wielaard (GNU/Classpath)
This, for me, is the spirit of Free and Open Source software communities. It's unlikely we'll all agree on everything (you only have to read the postings I've linked to see that) but the attitude is overwhelmingly constructive. Maybe that's how you identify real open source?
Posted by webmink
( Aug 16 2006, 10:30:35 AM PDT )
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