From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-10-24T06:14:08+09:00
Subject: Re: IronRuby...will it be like J++?

Todd Benson wrote:
> On 10/23/07, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Right now I honestly believe that there is no indication at all that the
>> mean for anything else than to make Ruby better and richer, hopefully I and
>> them are not wrong...
>> Cheers
>> Robert
> 
> Everyone seems to say these guys are good people.  That's all great
> and fine, but we mustn't forget the emergent behavior of economic
> monsters like MS.  They truly take on a life of there own regardless
> of the best of intentions.  In any case, I agree to wait and see.

It's hard to argue that case for Sun, where the JDK is now open-source, 
the expectation is that money will primarily be made off hardware rather 
than software (which is supposed to be open-source now across the 
board), and JRuby remains a fully open, community-driven project with 
its original licenses intact.

- Charlie