Fabrizio Giudici's Blog

Pausing

I was going to publish some other blog entry about my projects, but as I think that for the next days the "opensourcing Java" stuff will get the lion's share, I think I'll pause for a while... ;-)

Comments

• An interesting (and expected) comment (from The Inquirer):

  
  [GPL licensing of Java] also paves the way for widespread adoption of Java on GNU/Linux. It also puts Novell in a very uncomfortable position, because its "Mono" project will never be as free as Java, having to always have to "chase a moving target" which is Microsoft's own APIs and specifications. In the words of Red Hat's Robert H Pennington: "Microsoft controls the .NET platform. They will always be ahead, and it will always be tuned for Windows. This is the wrong direction for free software". It took Sun two years to realize this, and finally it can be said that going forward, Java will be Free Software.

  Posted by: fabriziogiudici on November 13, 2006 at 02:48 AM

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