Re: The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

[Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen <thunderaxiom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I  believe it is if you want to 

1) have a Sun JVM in a device (cell phone, BluRay(?), or similar.
2) want to have an offical JVM for your platform and buy Sun's JVM and
either port it yourself or have Sun do it.

The approach by Sun has apparently been - get the developers first for free,
and then charge those who need it for their hardware.

/Thorbjørn

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Nathan Andelin
Sent: 13. december 2010 20:11
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] The ASF Resigns From the JCP Executive Committee

> From: Jim Oberholtzer
> the moment Oracle tries to pull a Microsoft and claim sufficient ownership
> to demand license fees,  it's gonna get hot fast.

I seem to recall reading something from James Gosling in which he indicated
that 
Sun did charge license fees for Java, and that it was a profitable business.

 How much more will Oracle charge?  How much less "open" will Java become?
How 
much more proprietary?  How much less competition between JVM
implementations? 
 What will Oracle do to "tune" Java to perform better for Oracle
applications? 
 It's not that there is a pending threat to the Java platform, but that
Oracle 
is more for making money than endearing itself to the "community".

-Nathan.