« Captain Brazil
Poll Plugin for JIRA released »

Catching up on the Open Letter blogging

May 11th, 2007 by Hen

Bizarre stuff reading all the blogs (that Google shows me) regarding the open letter sent to Sun. An interesting bit of history is to read about the last time this all blew up back in 2002. It’s much the same TCK stuff, and Apache issued an official statement then too.

As always in life it’s painful to read the criticism and warming to read the words of support. Most of the criticism seems to either end up in the “haven’t actually read things yet and think this is an AL/GPL isse” or to be from people whose vehemence suggests they hardly had an open mind in the first place.

This entry was posted on Friday, May 11th, 2007 at 3:35 am and is filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Catching up on the Open Letter blogging”

  1. Tim O'Brien Says:
    May 13th, 2007 at 11:30 am

    Yo.

    I’m pretty sure this is more about “We’re not going to even acknowledge you until the OpenJDK is off the ground.” But, I’m sorry, I also think that there is a lot of “We don’t to do anything that might give the FSF guys second thoughts”.