April 25, 2005
Sun JDK 的社群協同開發計畫
在 GCJ 的前輩 Anthony Green 的 blog [「I fixed the JDK!」 and all I got with this crummy shirt] 提到 Andy Tripp 所寫的一篇文章 [I Fixed the JDK!]，這又與 Sun Microsystems 最近的社群協同開發計畫 [JDK Collaboration] 有關。Andy Tripp 試著修正幾個小錯誤，並且回報給 Sun Microsystems。然而，我們可以發現 Andy 提到：
- The good news is that Java is "open" in the sense that you can look at its source code
- The bad news is that it's not truly "open source" according to the official definition.
- The good news is that you can see the source so you can work around problems.
- The bad news is that you can't actually fix the problems in the JDK.
- The good news is that you can fix the problems in your own version of the JDK.
- The bad news is is that you can't distribute your own version to your customers.
- The good news is that you could always email your fix to Sun and hope that they incorporate it.
- The bad news is that that's never really worked at all.
- The good news is that Sun has now set up a real mechanism to submit bug fixes,
- The bad news? Well, we'll have to wait and see if there is any bad news.
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