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Sun: We screwed up on open source
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| Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of
| the company focus on Sun's interactions with the community in 2001/2002,
| which Sun's chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period
| where Sun "screwed up".
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| "We've open sourced Java [...] and people see that and they say 'wow, you've
| GPLed Java, you must be serious!'
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Sun-We-screwed-up-on-open-source/0,130061733,339290077,00.htm?omnRef=1337
http://tinyurl.com/5fytse
They finally realise and also admit that they should have ditched proprietary
software long ago. It was a passing fad.
Related:
Sun CEO: "Proprietary"...did more damage to sun than any market downturn
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| Sun has discovered the exact same thing. Freedom sells. Or, rather,
| services around freedom sell. The freedom itself is, well, free.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2007/04/sun_ceo_proprie.html
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