Shackled But Free —
My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun’s GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.
tomayko.com
05:01
Gosling v. Greenspun —
On the relationship between the “Black Hole Theory of Design” and “Greenspun’s tenth Rule of Programming”.
tomayko.com
04:41
James Gosling Supports Closures in Java —
“Closures were left out of Java initially more because of time pressures than anything else. Closures, as a concept, are tried and true – well past the days of being PhD topics.”
blogs.sun.com
04:52
Does JavaFX Spell The End Of AJAX? —
Is anyone actually falling for this crap? “‘The goal is to make it so people never have to see code’, said Gosling.” — Gag Me!
internetnews.com
16:10
Q&A: James Gosling, 'father of Java' —
Wow. I’m nodding yesly to almost everything said by Gosling in this article. Weird. Here’s a good one: “The number one biggest threat to enterprises is the inherent fallibility and laziness of humans.”
management.silicon.com
09:01
Mr. Gosling - why did you make URL equals suck?!? —
Wow. Much worse than I thought.
brian.pontarelli.com
05:27
The History of the GNU General Public License —
“What led Stallman to the creation of this copyleft license was his experience with James Gosling, creator of NeWs and the Java programming language, and UniPress, over Emacs.”
free-soft.org
13:38
Okay, James Gosling isn't really this ignorant... —
Yes he is! He seems to not understand even fundamental F/OSS licensing concepts and always throws up that same “Open Source = everyone can check in anything” strawman.
archive.scripting.com
01:30