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Linux Pipeline Newsletter www.LinuxPipeline.com Tuesday, August 24, 2004 In This Issue: - Sun Demands Removal Of Java API Docs - Google's Disappointment Chills Lindows' IPO Ardor - Australian Agency Opts For Open Source - More News... - Make Linux, Not War - CA, IBM Open-Source Moves Not Equal - System Showdown: Windows Vs. Java - More Picks... Blades can significantly lower your total cost of ownership by reducing space utilization, improving efficiency, increasing system availability, and reducing management costs. Now get started affordably, with 33% savings on HP BL20p Blade Server bundles. http://www.techweb.com/pipeline/hpblades0804 ----------------------------------------- Editor's Note: Javalobby Gets Sunburned For several months now, Sun Microsystems has released a steady stream of software into the open-source community. And while it's unlikely that the company will serve up Java for the same treatment (with good reason, in my opinion), it seemed as if Sun was learning how to deal effectively with the open-source community. That's what makes the company's dust-up with Javalobby last week so mystifying. The online community of Java developers recently launched JDocs, an online repository for Java API documentation. According to a statement recently posted by Javalobby president Rick Ross, Sun was the first company the group approached with the idea for JDocs--and according to Ross, Sun management was enthusiastic about the idea. Last Friday, however, Sun apparently told Ross in no uncertain terms that it wanted nothing to do with JDocs. Ross subsequently removed all of the Sun-copyrighted Java APIs from the site and posted a note explaining the situation to the Java development community. For the record, Ross noted that the only other requests he's received from companies have all asked him to add their Java-related APIs, not to remove them. Sun Demands Removal Of Java API Docs http://www.developerpipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=3D30000016 Sun's management is apparently feeling a bit defensive after spending most of the past three months explaining why they have no intention of turning Java into an open-source language. As Ross himself noted, however, it's a bit of stretch to see Javalobby or the JDocs project as part of a conspiracy dedicated to undermining Sun's position. Nor does it make any sense to claim that allowing JDocs to publish the APIs might somehow threaten Sun's intellectual property rights, which Javalobby took great pains to acknowledge. What does it all mean? Maybe nothing, other than that someone at Sun woke up in a bad mood last Friday. Or maybe it gives us a glimpse into a corporate culture that, for all of its claims to the contrary, neither understands nor especially appreciates how to work with open-source groups that aren't at least partially under its control. If you're buying the latter explanation, it should be a lot of fun to watch Sun carry out its effort to establish Solaris as a viable open-source project. At any rate, we'll have to keep guessing for now, because no one at Sun appears ready to discuss the matter. That's it for now. As always, feel free to get in touch with your own opinions, comments or complaints, and have a good week.
Matthew McKenzie Sun Demands Removal Of Java API Docs Javalobby was asked to remove Sun-copyrighted Java API documentation from the group's JDocs site.
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