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OpenEnterpriseTrends.com: Sun’s McNealy Questions Open Source’s Value to Java Industry

[ Thanks to Ganesh
Prasad
for this link. ]

“A revealing Q&A with Sun CEO Scott McNealy appears in the
August issue of Linux Magazine. By special arrangement with the
publication, Open Enterprise Trends is the first online venue to
bring readers portions of McNealy’s conversation, where he comments
on his view of two key Open Source technologies — JBoss and
Linux

“In one potentially controversial segment, McNealy told the
magazine he thinks some Open Source providers in Java may be
‘screwing up’ the profit-making potential of the industry.
McNealy’s remarks follow only by a few weeks news that Sun reached
agreement with the Apache Software Foundation to open up the Java
Community Process to the Apache community and change software
licensing on a number of its Apache-related JSRs…”

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