From: Rich Morin Date: 2006-09-10T06:56:04+09:00 Subject: Re: Sun hires JRuby developers. At 6:19 AM +0900 9/10/06, Charles O Nutter wrote: > I like to think that open source may be the missing part > of the equations in the examples you cited. ... I've been following Sun's activities for years. It's been sad to see them hobble wonderful technology with egregious licensing terms. Had they acted differently, NeWS might have replaced X11 (or at least provided the incentive for someone to replace it with something reasonable), the Java libraries might have been Open Source from the start, etc. Recently, however, Sun has begun to show strong signs that they "get it" about licensing technology to encourage its adoption across the industry. I don't know how this will play out financially, but I wish them well in the effort! -r -- http://www.cfcl.com/rdm Rich Morin http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/resume rdm@cfcl.com http://www.cfcl.com/rdm/weblog +1 650-873-7841 Technical editing and writing, programming, and web development