[Discussioni] [JAVA] A proposito degli standard

[Andrea Glorioso]

Ciao a tutti.

http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/08/13/33OPcurve_1.html

  [...] Sun wants to give Java to the public. It's the right thing and
  there isn't  much left to open up.  But  Sun can't part  with Java's
  value  as a  point  of  prestige,  a draw  to  the  company's  other
  technology  and  a  money-making  product in   itself.  Nor can  Sun
  sanction the stamping of the Java  brand, which Sun and participants
  in the Java Community Process busted hump to  create and protect, on
  software   that   is   potentially    incompatible   with  published
  specifications. You   see, the majority  of  Java users won't notice
  that Java has been made open source. They'll  just expect it to keep
  working the way it always has. And if an open source porting project
  brings Java  to  a  currently  neglected platform,  customers   will
  migrate  to it with precisely   the same expectations  they bring to
  Java downloaded from Sun. License disclaimers  will not fix that for
  people who don't read open source licenses.

  Free software   leaders  claim that  the   community can handle  the
  standards certification that Sun now performs. That self-enforcement
  has  reaped mixed results  elsewhere. As  an  example, consider  the
  World Wide Web Consortium's HTML,  CSS, and DOM standards. There are
  innumerable   freeware   standards-compliance   test    suites   for
  browsers. The ink on the standards has been dry for years, yet every
  browser still has its special set of broken, missing, and incomplete
  implementations of  these very concise standards.  Despite community
  threats of blacklists   and  boycotts to  force  compliance, no  two
  browsers look alike.

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Posto che:

(a) non mi interessa discutere dei meriti o dei demeriti di Java

(b) non mi interessa discutere dei meriti o dei demeriti di Sun

mi piacerebbe  sapere   la vostra   opinione  relativamente all'ultimo
paragrafo, ovvero al fatto che lo  sviluppo "collaborativo" tipico del
Software Libero (facendo una grossa approssimazione metto anche il W3C
nella categoria)   difficilmente possa   garantire il rispetto   delle
implementazioni  di Java alle  specifiche del JCP,  una volta che Java
(interprete e librerie standard) sia divenuto "libero".

Ciao,  

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