Re: Sun to Open-source Java (slightly humorous)

I need to take that back, forward and back again :)
Looks like i will be branded as on of the "java guys" and  thrown out 
of ilug meetings after all.
Here's a summary of whats been happening recently, and its slightly 
humorous.....


Mar 24: Sun's CEO McNeally says Sun will not opensource Java, there's 
no need to.
              http://gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/25400-1.html

May 3: Gosling (creator/father of Java) for opening Java
            http://www.sys-con.com/story/?storyid=44679&DE=1

Jun 2: Sun announces it will opensource Solaris.
             http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1086190686.html

Jun 3: Someone at Sun announces that "Open source Java will happen".
             http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1086320341.html
            
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39149502,00.htm

Jun 3: No one really cares about Solaris being opensourced, its going 
downhill anyway.
           
http://www.solariscentral.org/article.php?story=20040608073945830

Jun 4: No wait. SCO cares. They say "Hey, we wrote Solaris, too" (in a 
implied reference to their also having written Linux)
           
http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;51084128;fp;16;fpid;0

Jun 4: Sun's CEO squashes idea of opening Java
            
http://www.solariscentral.org/article.php?story=20040604095654944
            http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0604sunnode.html

Jun 5:
         Sun opensources some Java components, promises more to come.
         https://jdic.dev.java.net/


Jul 4: Microsoft announces they will open-source Windows XP, 2000 and 
LongHorn
            Steve Ballmer pledges to open source its Windows operating 
system "for better interoperability"

Jul 4: JBoss CEO Mark Fleury remarks that "open sourcing is not a 
silver bullet. Microsoft's security and stability problems will not 
vanish with opensourcing its code"

Jul 4: SCO executives discover they wrote Windows too
            SCO's CEO Darl McBride said "We have absolute direct 
knowledge of this. If you go behind the scenes ..."

            One lawyer representing SCO discovered a file "stdio.h" in 
one unnamed release of Microsoft's source code.
            Another found a line "#define FALSE 0", and a comment that 
went " /* billie sucks */" both also present in "SCO" code.

Jul 5: SCO sues Microsoft for USD 14 billion

"Less than 24 hours after Microsoft's chief operating officer Steve 
Ballmer pledged to open source its Windows operating system, The SCO 
Group has stated that licence restrictions prevent MS from contributing 
its work to the GPL (General Public Licence).

Windows is based on DOS and Unix System V, the source code to which has 
since been acquired by The SCO Group.

  The SCO Group’s marketing manager Marc Modersitzki said although the 
company can't discuss specific details of its licence agreements, it is 
confident that Microsoft will be very rigorous in complying with its 
licence as the company defines its plans for open-sourcing any part of 
Windows."

Jul 7: Bill Gates says in an interview that IBM is quietly 
stage-managing the SCO attack on it

Jul 15: SCO CEO McBride confesses it's attacks on Linux and Solaris 
were managed by Microsoft.

Jul 25: Microsoft CEO announces they will open-source Longhorn only, if 
its released.


--
Regards,
Rahul Kumar

BTW - Have you seen the recent MS-India ad. Says if you are losing 
sleep/or you have no life, move to MS XP. From WHAT ??? From MS '98. No 
references to other OS's. It is clearly admitting that their previous 
systems are unstable and slow.


On 12-Jun-04, at 8:06 AM, ilugd-dev-request-cunTk1MwBs8/[email protected] wrote:

>
> Not to start the war again, but there are some signs that Sun may
> open-source Java and Solaris in the next 2 years or so. (courtesy
> slashdot.org).
>
>
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39149502,00.htm
>
> (Hopefully now I wont be thrown out of ilug meetings :)
>
> Some excerpts:
>
> Sun has backed up an announcement that its Solaris server operating
> system will have an open source flavour by making a similar promise for
> its Java technology.