Thursday, 24 April 2008
Is OpenSolaris an Indicator for the OpenJDK Project?
Through Wired.com I ran into this blog entry talking about what Sun did since open-sourcing Solaris. Immediately this reminded me of the feelings I had even during last years JavaOne as Sun announced the open-sourcing of Java and especially afterwards when I tried to provide a little enhancement for the java.net.URLConnection class. I was part (before and/or after) in 4 projects that Sun open-sourced and all of them more or less had the same issues. Most of these issues are based, in my opinions, on two facts:
- The open-source project was not organically grown but pushed out by Sun
- Instead of coaching the open-source project Sun is still trying to maintain some control over it
Posted by at 8:42 PM in Open-Source
