DevX: Sun’s Gosling: Already Plenty of Java ‘Harmony’ Under the Sun

“The Apache Software Foundation’s proposal of an open source
version of Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE) has the ‘Father of Java’
James Gosling puzzled. ‘It’s often difficult to get a good picture
from the open source community of what they actually object to in
what we’re doing,’ said the fellow and Chief Technology Officer of
Sun’s Developer Products group, who created the Java language, in
an interview with DevX. ‘In what way could we be more open?

“‘Since day zero, 10 years ago, all of our sources have been
open and available,’ he explained, adding that Sun has worked to
establish a governance model (the Java Community Process or JCP),
which is ‘very similar to how many projects in open source
work…'”

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