In an interview with Builder AU Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phipps admits that they “screwed up” with open source in 2001/2002.
“All [open source developers] can remember is what happened in 2001/2002 when, to be quite frank with you, we screwed up. We alienated a large group of open source developers by the attitudes we had of the community back then,” said Phipps.
Phipps says that Sun has since tried to remedy the situation with the “open sourcing Solaris, Java, the application server Glassfish, NetBeans and the rest of the portfolio.”
See Builder AU for a video of the interview.
Builder AU [via Slashdot]
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