“It was a press conference like any other press conference. Sun
announced that, in conjunction with Inprise, it was releasing Java
2 Platform, Standard Edition (J2SE). What Sun didn’t mention,
though, was that much of the work that lay behind J2SE was done by
the Linux Blackdown Porting Team, a group of open-source
programmers devoted to Java….”
“On the legal front, Sun was fine and dandy. But when it came to
giving credit where credit is due, Sun made a major misstep with
open-source developers….”
“With this background, it can come as no surprise that some
Blackdown developers are sick and tired of Sun. They’re not
considering giving up on Java, though. Instead, some of their
members claim to be thinking about working on IBM’s Java
variants.“