To compete in this new world, you really have to be talking about truely open technologies, right? And Open Source is, I think, the most genuine way to actually accomplish that. I think we've seen, from the OpenOffice project, from the Java.net project, from NetBeans - these are all Open Source communities that Sun has been a part of - and CollabNet is actually been working with Sun on - we've seen this gradual shift towards how do we make these broadbased development initiatives so we really do build a community-based platform. There are many existing Java projects under the GPL licence, many of them are parts of what the Java virtual machine is. And now Sun will be able to collaborate with these other communities, they will be able to share patches and build upon each other's work. And that's incredibly good news. For the consumer, it might exhibit itself in the form of faster acceleration, more interesting website, more interesting devices and Java everywhere.
Paul Cormier, Executive Vice President of Engineering, Red Hat Corp.
Sun moving Java SE to the Open Source Community is a big day in the industry, right now, in the Open Source industry. Linux has moved very, very rapidly, from a server perspective. But from a desktop perspective, there hasn't been a complete solution. This is really the missing piece of the puzzle to move the desktop much more rapidly and really give partners and customers and developers the beginning of a great alternative to the .Net framework. I see the Open Source Java announcement as a great opportunity for RedHat and Sun to work together on common Open Source solutions that can benefit both our businesses, our common customers and our common developers as well. So I think this is a great opportunity to start to bring that together.
As Java became one of the most important languages for the expression of ideas about technology of programming in the last decade, the question of Java's freedom - wether it could be used freely and made part of free software projects - has been a crucial question. Sun's policy of GPLing Java, which we are celebrating now, is an extraordinary achievement in returning programming technology to that state of freely available knowledge. Sun has now GPL hardware designs, Sun is GPLing Java. That's an extraordinary vote of confidence in this way of sharing information. And we, in the Free Software world, are very pleased and very flattered to see Sun taking its own very valuable and very important products and agreeing with us that there will be more advantages to Sun as well as to the rest of the community if they are shared under these rules.
The choice of GPL, I think, is going to really rock some people back. It's a bold move and it's one that's going to have far-reaching consequences. For stars(?) it will mean that Java will get incorporated into Linux distributions likes Ubuntu which are, you know, very much focused around the GPL and the like. That will harness, I think, you know, a large group beyond a core Java community. It also means that there are, as I said, these communities, the feel very strongly about capability(?) free and open licences are going to take a look at Java.
Java has, for nearly a decade now, been fundamentaly part of the internet ecosystem. There is a lot of creativity, there is a lot of innovation that comes out of the Free Software community. Now we're going to see this innovation flowing into Java. So this is a real milestone for the Free Software community and for Sun. Sun is a company that has build up this enormous body of intellectual property, it has put industrial strength engineering into Java. And now Sun is unleaching this intellectual property in a whole new way. I think when you combine the industrial expertise of Sun with the enormous, almost infinite creativity and adaptibility of the Free Software community, we're going to see something really powerfull emerge as a result. I think this is an enormously positive and exciting step for Sun.
The GNU General Public Licence is the most popular and most widely used Free Software licence. The special thing about this licence is that it's a copyleft licence, that is to say: all versions of the program must carry the same licence. So the freedoms that the GNU GPL gives to the users must reach all the users of the program. And that's the purpose for which I wrote it. It'll be very good that the "Java trap" won't exist anymore; it'll be a thing of the past. That kind of problem can still exist in other areas but it won't exist for Java anymore. I think Sun has, with this contribution, has contributed more than any other company to the Free Software community, in the form of software. And it shows leadership, it's an example I hope others will follow.
Dr. Marcelo K. Zuffo, Professor, Laboratory of Integrated Systems, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
From our perspective, it's an incredible and wonderful opportunity for developing countries. Particularly in Brazil and Latin America, we have a pretty active Java community that has been establishing in the past ten years. Brazil is the fifth worlwide populated country. So it's an incredibly huge market. Part of the questions is how to give access of this low-income population to the high-end and to the benefits of the technology. So, Open Source, Open Standards and Open Data Representation are strategies to disseminate broadly these technologies, avoiding monopolies and closed markets.
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