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Sun’s McNealy: Java won’t be open source


Publication:	Government Computer News	Date:	Mar 25 2004

Despite urging from competitors and open source advocates, Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will not open the source to its Java programming language anytime soon, said Sun CEO Scott McNealy during a news conference at the 2004 FOSE conference.

“We’re trying to understand what problem does it solve that is not already solved,” McNealy said.

Last month Eric Raymond, noted open source programmer and president of the Open Source Initiative advocacy group, posted an open letter to McNealy calling for Sun to make Java open source. “Sun’s insistence on continuing tight control of the Java code has damaged Sun's long-term interests by throttling acceptance of the language in the open-source community, ceding the field (and probably the future) to scripting-language competitors like Python and Perl,” Raymond wrote.

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JAVA doesnt NEED to be open source	tempest766	26 Mar, 00:30
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