Comments on: Oracle buy Sun, an Open Source Disaster?

By: doris

doris — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:16:48 +0000

im too sad to comment, a step back for open source community

By: chai

chai — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:21:53 +0000

sad news for developers, we hope oracle keep java as open source project,

By: ivan

ivan — Sat, 23 May 2009 16:10:28 +0000

@Gilles Dubreuil
i think the community is not worried about proprietary claims on sun projects but rather on whether the mother company support the growth of those projects and whether the lead and influential developers will stay or leave for other true to open source projects.

and yes, sun is too late in making java open source, i think sun is confused between going open source or stay on commercial side.

By: Gilles Dubreuil

Gilles Dubreuil — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:06:02 +0000

It seems some people never heard of Copyleft, the Free Software Foundation and GLP licenses?

Effectively source forks is the answer for one scared of proprietary claims on those projects.
But not only. No company can compete with thoushands of developers worldwide.
The Open Source Software Model is a technological breakthrough by itself. Nobody can stop evolution.

BTW, I think Sun has been too slow to Open Source Java. Also they didn’t patented enough Solaris code (did they do any?) as IBM did with AIX to make sure nobody would ever puts its hands on GNU/Linux.

It seems Sun didn’t learn enough the lessons of IT industry history.

Remember, nobody can put a patent on ideas, that’s the future of our kids.

By: Dominique De Vito

Dominique De Vito — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:15:56 +0000

A step back ? Maybe, maybe not…

Well, to give you an example, you know, even if Oracle closes OpenOffice project, this project has already been forked as Go-oo And SUN is not the only player into the Glassfish community.

Then, this being said, there are multiple factors driving the future of those open source projects. So, wait and see.