This is a transcript of the podcast where James Gosling, the creator of Java talks about his past, current state of Java & more.
A good read for any one interested in Java, Software, OpenSource & stuff like that.
A few pluckings from the transcript:
“With Oracle it doesn’t have to make sense, it just has to make money. And one of the important things for the community to remember is that Oracle is deeply, deeply dependent on the success of Java.”
“I would guess that the Oracle lawyers did their homework. They almost, because they use open source, it’s really easy for the Oracle lawyers to go out and hire third-party experts to do the comparison. So they probably actually have a fairly solid case.” (regarding Oracles Law Suit over Google)
“…And you look at the way things like the NoSQL movement is. It’s various flavors of large scale distributed hash tables and trying to deal with massive scale and massive replication, and you can’t back up the database because no tape farm is big enough. And you find scale and reliability can fit together at the same time. So a bunch of those things are really cool. (46:35) I’m actually pretty excited about the sort of pragmatic evolution of the open source movement that is happening.”
“…what’s really valuable about open source is not what’s free as in beer, but what’s free as in speech. And then the collaborative development model - if you’re going to collaborate, like companies collaborating in a non-open source way, the legal frameworks for them end up being nightmares, and if things go snarky, it is a nightmare. The standard open source program is one of the only ways to make collaboration work. But if you make it open source, how do you pay salaries…”
“future isn’t something that’s rammed down our throats. The future is a choice. The human race is six or seven billion odd people each of which is making choices every day. You add up all those choices and that’s the direction of humanity.”
“Everything I care about is in the JVM. The JVM has worked out really, really well.”
“Google is kind of a funny company because a lot of them have this peace love and happiness version of evil.”
“well, what do I want to do when I grow up? And I’m kind of deeply confused about that. Part of the problem is that there’s just a whole lot of things that are really, really cool.”
Do we see dark clouds over the future of Java?
