Wednesday August 16, 2006 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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