From: gwtmp01@...
Date: 2006-09-10T07:42:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Sun hires JRuby developers.


On Sep 9, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
> 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.

The whole javascript/Ajax movement causes me to have deja vu
with respect to NeWS.  Almost twenty years ago, NeWS was all
about crafting code and sending it to a client/browser for
execution in order to offer a rich-gui in a networked environment.

It is a wonder that the IT industry can be productive at all
when it spends most of its time re-inventing things.


Gary Wright