Shackled But Free
My best attempt at saying something nice about Sun’s GPLing of Java, even if a bit grudgingly.
Gosling v. Greenspun
On the relationship between the “Black Hole Theory of Design” and “Greenspun’s tenth Rule of Programming”.
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.”
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!
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.”
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.”
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.