Syindication
“We Screwed Up” Says Sun’s Simon Phipps
Simon’s a great guy, so I almost couldn’t quote this article this way, but the headline won out…
From the article:
Many open source developers remain sceptical of Sun because their memories of the company focus on Sun’s interactions with the community in 2001/2002, which Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phipps concedes was a period where Sun “screwed up”.
Speaking in a recent interview with Builder AU, Phipps explained the situation in which Sun finds itself.
“Open source developers have been much more sceptical of Sun, a lot of open source developers don’t remember the fact that Sun was pretty much the first open source start-up in 1982.
“All they 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.
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