It seems now clear to me that James Gosling, as previously demostrated, does not have a clue when it comes to Open Source and his latest remarks confirm this.
Thanks to J Aaron Farr for nailing down his FUD about the GPL (since when has the ASF distributed GPL code?) and his ridiculous claim that by opensourcing Java, “any old person could check in stuff”.
On the other hand, I still have doubts about the supposed “clear need” for an Open Source J2SE claimed by Harmony supporters.
To me, it’s all about risks. While there’s a risk of Sun folding down or being acquired and stopping all Java development, the risk of spending an inordinate amount of time and energy on a project that — assuming it ever produces a release — won’t deliver much more than what Sun’s JVM delivers right now is much bigger. Of course, I might be wrong.
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