Sun Increases Commitment to GNOME 312
Ur@eus writes "Mark McLoughlin of Sun mailed the gnome-hackers mailing-list today announcing the deal between Sun, Ximian and Wipro. The deal means that Wipro will assign up to 50 people to work on GNOME including hackers, QA people, documenters and more. These hackers come in addition to the Sun hackers already working on GNOME at their Desktop Division in Ireland.
The official announcement from Sun will come in a few days."
Is anyone else confused by this? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Is anyone else confused by this? (Score:3, Funny)
It's that rough anal sex from Microsoft I could do without.
Give us the money, or the monkey gets it (Score:3, Funny)
Funny (Score:1, Funny)
Man, let me catch my breath - I can't stop laughing. I guess I've dealt with too many Sun C++ compiler bugs and Java bugs over they years, so I'm a bit skeptical.
Re:Is anyone else confused by this? (Score:2, Funny)
Therefore WinXP must be 1) open source and 2) non-commercial.
Very cool
Re:Where all the "Sun is Evil" folks? (Score:2, Funny)
What is fashionable now is to be pragmatic under all circumstances, but when it comes to Sun or any of their products (specially Java and Solaris). Being critical of Microsoft technologies is now "passé". Here are some simple guidelines so you don't look funny when posting:
1. If ever you make an argument against any company or technology (specially against MS), you have to always counter with something in favor. This a is not optional, it is a mandatory practice. If you fail to do so, you will look like a zealot lacking any critical thought. By opposition, if you are attacking Sun, it is always very clear-cut: it's black or it's white (and coming from Sun, it can only be black).
2. You must always use shorter yardsticks to measure MS. If S.B. says that Linux is a cancer, it's normal. Hey, they are the competition, what can you expect? If B.J. says that C# has not being designed to be completely secure, open fire. Obviously he is way of base, he is completely sold out and hasn't even read correctly the
3. If referring to similar products, even if one has been proven and is widely used, always take down Sun's. For instance, Java is slow and if I want to change a standard API I have to go throughout a community process that sux because there are to many companies involved.
Finally, as a general principle, be always suspicious of all things Sun. If they do something that may appears good for the open source community, there is certainly a bad reason. If you can't find any bad reason right away, just remember that they haven't made Java nor Solaris open source and they don't want to certify JBoss for free.