OpenEuphoria

Re: Moving on...

• Posted by jbrown105 at speedymail.org Aug 17, 2003
• 482 views

On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 10:00:16AM +0000, Peter Willems wrote:
> > If Euphoria's income isn't doing that, then I'm saying there are some
> > really strong arguements to make Euphoria open source.
> 
>    But there are also arguments to keep it proprietary. There is
>    a very important reason that Sun is not releasing Java into
>    Open Source and I think it is for keeping a standard.

Of course, you can look at Python or Perl. Both are open source, both have
well established standards. Also, Python has 2 implementations last time I
checked (original Python in C and Jython, the Java version of Python) and
a third (Python in C#) was being planned. And yet the Python standard
stays intact. As does the language.

So, perhaps the reason Java isnt open source has nothing to do with keeping
it a standard after all... (or at best, if that is a reason, its a misguided
one imho).

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