>NET, J2EE, and freedom

[Bob Cober]

I agree.  Sun definitely needs to free Java.  But I still prefer unfreed
J2EE to .NET hands down.  And there are Open-Source J2EE implementations,
like Tomcat and JBoss.  J2EE is just an Open Spec.

I just can't believe some of the steps MS is taking lately - especially
things like those .NET My Services subscription stuff.  Unbelievable.  We
are staying with J2EE at my work.

Anyway, here is a quote that someone took from the web and posted at my
work:

With Closed-Source, the more you know the harder it gets.
With Open-Source, the more you know the easier it is.

This really rings true....I mean you can only learn so much about Windows.
At some point, you are simply left for with a black box.  I was reading a
book called ASP Internals, and the author basically attempts to reverse
engineer the ASP.dll.  It is so sad to see someone who clearly wants to
learn and teach information, but alas he cannot know the entire story
because he has no source.  Because of this the book is only about 100 pages.

The opposite case occured at work.  One of the developers was working with
JBoss.  He could not configure the data pooling features correctly.  He
downloaded the source, viewed the pooling code, and knew without any doubt
just what was needed.


Bob



----- Original Message -----
From: Eric Richardson <eric.richardson@milagrosoft.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: Re: >NET, J2EE, and freedom


> Jim wrote:
>
> > For those who havent seen this
> >
> > http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-10-28-003-20-OP-LF-MS
> >
> > is a very good discussion of where the web is going and how we have some
> > control of the path that it takes.  The article is well written and
provides
> > a very good explanation of both .NET and J2EE.  Well worth the long
read.
>
>
> It was pretty good. I personally like Java but think Sun should free it.
> My impression in different forums is that hackers tend to be really
> strict about Free/Open Source software and avoid Java. I think this base
> set of developers would consider using Java if it was free.  Corporate
> type developers and others that are not so principle oriented when it
> comes to Free Software should certainly support Microsoft alternatives
> as they have too much market share and FUD to go around. I could ramble
> all day on this subject so I'll stop.
>
> Anyway, thanks.
> Eric
>
>
>
>
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