Gosling on Opening Java

An anonymous reader writes "It sounds like James Gosling's nudging Sun closer and closer toward open-sourcing Java, as requested variously by IBM, Eric S. Raymond, and Richard Stallman, though not by JBoss's Marc Fleury. 'Developers value Java's cross platform interoperability and reliability,' Gosling writes, adding 'If we do something to make Java even more open-source than it is already, having safeguards to protect the developer community will be something we pay a lot of attention to.' Surprisingly, 'the creator of the Java programming language,' as Sun usually calls him, seems to be at odds on this issue with his own CEO, Scott McNealy. So, who should have custody of the child, the father...or the boss?"

Joint Custody

[modifried]

So, who should have custody of the child, the father...or the boss?

Boss gets it on the weekends, father gets it during the week.

kudos to gosling...

[all your mwbassguy a]

...we need java to be open source, so we can fix all the flaws he left in it. i mean, no goto?!

wow!

[narkotix]

first maybe solaris....now maybe java...whats next...open source star office??? oh wait..

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Are you pregnant? Wow, do we have a child?

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, dear, yes and no...

Weekly Schedule

[cubicledrone]

Monday: Open source Java
Tuesday: Forked
Thursday: Enormous whirling clusterfuck

Saturday: Start on new language

Re:Why open Java?

[iroberts]

Successful open source projects simply do not fork. Why? Because there's no interest and it's way too difficult with large scale software. There is one GNOME, one KDE, one Apache, one Linux kernel, one GNU Compiler Colection, one OpenOffice, etc.

Not to mention one Emacs, one XEmacs.