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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, April 26 2012 @ 03:25 AM EDT |
As a side note, Sun Microsystem's commitment to Open Source may have
vacillated, but the company was deeply committed to "Open Systems" on a very
basic philosophical level.
In their early days they told customers that if
they could find a better *nix
system, they should be able to migrate to it
cheaply. That ultimately turned out
to be their suicide note, when many of
their customers switched to Linux.
Their approach towards Java was very much in
this vein. Unlike the events from
the "UNIX Wars", they wanted one single
specification which any vendor could
use without prejudice. What Google did was
IMO perfectly fine on the legal
level, but perhaps broke the social & moral
contract of industry-standard
Open Systems. What was a multivendor initiative
is now controlled by a single
company on mobile.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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