On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:34:54 +0900, Veloso wrote: > This strikes me as a case where Sun's enlightened self interest is > serving the open source community. > > I wonder: Does anyone think I am being naive about this? > It's all good because Ruby, and, hopefully, someday, Java, will be GPL'ed. IronRuby is a tad different because the Microsoft VM is closed. The Java VM is closed (I think) but Java is, or will be, open :) -Thufir