Suns Open Source Java fiasco

Suns Schwartz says that the GPL is definatley an option.  I dont think its a very good option

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Bang on the pots and pans.

Start making confetti with those EULAs.

I'm unimpressed as well.

They are simply, IMO, using the term Open Source and declaring themselves, Open Source friendly as like a tagline or a way to get to hang out with the cool kids.  Its not cute, its not noble, its silly and they are going to end up screwing themselves in the process.  Its like Jack Messman the CEO of Novell at the last Brainshare saying that some company was a friend of open source.  He is not an authority in Open Source, he is not an expert in Open Source and neither is Schwartz.

JohnAskew wrote:

Bang on the pots and pans.

Start making confetti with those EULAs.

I'm unimpressed as well.

You don't have to be Open Source to be used in the industry, even in the future.  You have to have good marketing, a secure product, and developers willing to develop for the platform, whatever the platform is.  If you think Open Source will be the only form of development in the future, your dead wrong.  It will be a mix of Corporate (Closed Source) and Open Source.  Both with their advantages/disadvantages.  Licensing is a core issue with both, Open source being a little more complicated.

I don't think them open sourcing changes anything but the marketing perception.  No more than if Microsoft Open Sourced .NET.  So what.. you still won't get different adopters just because it is a Microsoft product.