Interesting article from eWeek that highlights the challenges confronting Sun when trying to figure out under what open source license to release Java:

Open-Sourcing Java Will Create Incompatibility Risk, Sun Exec Warns

Sun’s Simon Phipps seems to argue against the fundamental principles of openness in open source when he defends a more restrictive license for Java by referring to that big competitors (read: Microsoft) might fork the Java code into incompatibility.

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