The Goldfish Chronicles

See lots of crap asking Sun to open source Java, but I wonder if anyone has any plans on how to do it.

Would they keep the JCP?
Would they throw Java utterly open and ask Joy and Gosling to spend their evenings dealing with a noisy mail list?
Would they hand it over to an organisation [OSDL? ASF? JBoss ;)?]
Would they create a ‘Java Organisation’ a la Mozilla, Eclipse.

It seems that the most likely would be an Eclipse style system, based on the existing JCP structure. So really all the ‘open the source’ and letters from ESR mean:

1) Make the JCP communication public and remove the JCP NDA.
2) Remove the restrictive licences in the Java source code and show the C code.
3) Stop paying all the Sun people to work on JCP things in their day to day work, and tell them they have to do it in their evenings, while their work things become Java consultancy things.

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