More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Thursday 18 May 2006 04:44, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> On 5/17/06, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> > I agree (with all your points) but nothing has changed to make those
> > points
> > more valid now than 12 (?) years ago when Java was released.  So positive
> > as the announcement is, I'll _still_ be surprised.  But very, very,
> > happy! --
> > derek
>
> I think the people at Sun are changing.  Maybe a partial, conservative and
> slow adoption of open source (if not software freedom) if successful, is
> better for the free-libre software landscape than nothing?
>
> I'm rooting for them to get it right and not fall flat so that others can
> follow suit.
Something has changed, a lot of companies are moving to open source now, just 
look at IBM for an example. Redhat too is extremely profitable. Companies 
understand that there is money in Open Source now, which they did not before.

Sasha