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The dictator's free cookie day?

Sun chief open source officer Simon Phipps takes a dim view of the impact of Microsoft's Open Specification Promise, telling me that it's like a dictator holding a free cookie day, but remaining a dictator. Somewhere, Scott McNealy is smiling. Listen to more from Simon, Roller creator Dave Johnson and Apache Derby contributor David Van Couvering -- all Sun employees -- in my latest Opening Move.

Posted on October 25, 2006 at 08:09 PM | Permalink

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