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Sun Corporation = a bunch of moronic secret subversive Microsoft lapdogs
April 27, 2004;
James Gosling, father of the Java programming language, explains why the settlement of Sun Corporation with Microsoft is a "very good thing."

Sun Corporation refuses to release Java to open source community and spreads lies likt this one:

While it is true that as a part of it we did sign up for Microsoft's Communications Protocol Program that is a part of the US v. Microsoft case, our full agreement both modifies and expands on it to give us a much more broad and useful agreement. It is important to understand that in no way does this lock Sun or Sun customers into interoperating with any Microsoft system on Microsoft's strict terms. Right now, most of our interoperability is achieved through reverse-engineering. We have the option, entirely at our discretion, to access Microsoft's specifications through the collaboration agreement. But before we do so, on a case-by-case basis, we will do an analysis of the business case for the entanglements that such access implies (principally confidentiality and royalties). Right now, the vast majority of the software that we (Sun) produce has free and open specifications and we provide the implementations of a large and growing fraction of it as open source. We are not going to slow down our involvement in the open source community. Right now we have launched no projects that will access any Microsoft specifications under the agreement - we simply have the option to, if we decide that the benefits outweigh the costs.

It looks like Sun Corporation has no moral bone whatsoever and the fact that their friendship can be purchased, is the final proof of it. To read more about Sun's "love" of Microsoft, click here.

Please note: at this moment wireless Java is a number one mobile execution environment and is present in many regular cell phones, in all Symbian cell phones and even in some Microsoft powered cell phones. The deal with Microsoft is going to ruine credibility of Sun Corporation and opens new possibilities for .NET Compact Framework technology that is technologically superior to Wireless Java but available (in direct form) only on Microsoft powered cell phones...

The phrase "a bunch of moronic secret subversive Microsoft lapdogs" is not our invention but exact words of James Gosling.

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