tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post598353355892441846..comments2024-03-11T10:18:55.852-05:00Comments on Headius: Big PlansCharles Oliver Nutterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06400331959739924670noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post-14841216836688150392007-05-18T11:06:00.000-05:002007-05-18T11:06:00.000-05:00What Microsoft move threatens is not only Open sou...What Microsoft move threatens is not only Open source project, but our freedom to choose. It's the reason why I personally have mixed feelings toward projects like Mono (considering the pact between Novell and Microsoft, and the fact that .NET has in fact some strong ties to the Microsoft OS). On the contrary, having two major open source implementations of .NET (JRuby being now executed on top of Java, which has become open sourced too), is a very good thing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post-13659293697684838252007-05-18T04:56:00.000-05:002007-05-18T04:56:00.000-05:00Sun learned that they can only survive with open s...<I>Sun learned that they can only survive with open source.</I><BR/><BR/>The last gasps of a dying company.<BR/><BR/><I>Microsoft still tries to fight an enemy they do not know how to fight (because they can not just buy them).</I><BR/><BR/>Open source fights an enemy that doesn't exist.<BR/><BR/>If I worked for Sun, I would have quit the minute they touted the approval of Richard Stallman. If I was a stockholder, I would have sold all Sun shares immediately.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post-75143193142120457192007-05-17T15:43:00.000-05:002007-05-17T15:43:00.000-05:00Sorry about the extra commment, there was a seriou...Sorry about the extra commment, there was a serious typo in the original one.<BR/><BR/>Yeah, Sun is unlikely to battle with OSS, given their support of open source through GPL JDK, OpenOffice, etc.Chinmoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00669113723925766128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post-13059885322817896822007-05-17T15:41:00.000-05:002007-05-17T15:41:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Chinmoyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00669113723925766128noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20975090.post-24046115317189629342007-05-17T04:02:00.000-05:002007-05-17T04:02:00.000-05:00I am sure Sun would not come up with something lik...I am sure Sun would not come up with something like that. Sun learned that they can only survive with open source.<BR/>Microsoft still tries to fight an enemy they do not know how to fight (because they can not just buy them).Markus Jaishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11917489979545318829noreply@blogger.com