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Story: Sun challenged to release Java's code

Posted by: Jonathan Bullen (Thursday 19 February 2004, 10:23 AM)

The answer to Scott McNealey's fears that Microsoft or anyone else will abuse or tamper with Java code after it's release to the Open Source community, is to make sure that, like Linux, it is released under GPL.

If it is done that way as well as having a proper standards board set up under the auspices of e.g. OSDL, then the rigour of the OS community scrutiny and feedback on common IDE etc., will ensure it's success as an effective OS answer to .NET.

Because of the "ease of use", seamless computing, global Web services and application driven nature of .NET, it is a far greater threat to OS, competition and freedom of choice in the IT industry than Windows. As has been proved with Linux on the operating system and infrastructure front, the only effective answer to Microsoft on the application and services front is an OS community owned and standards based Java.