Re: Questions for the Java Open Source "Debate" at JavaOne

Glenn Holmer wrote:

> I don't think anybody consciously wants to break compatibility,
> but I think it would simply be too tempting to add Just One Cool
> Feature(tm).  That's the way Open Source works: when a programmer
> feels an itch, he codes.  And that's OK for the kernel, or maybe
> XFree86, and for applications.  But it's not OK for a programming
> language. 

It isn't? There are two problems with that statement

1) Sun also exercises control over libraries that are not part of the 
language proper.

2) In the view of many, there is nothing wrong with developing 
extensions to a language compiler as long as that compiler continues to 
support programs which don't make use of that extension. However, I 
don't think that's what anyone is proposing.


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