Jonathan Schwartz on open source

Jonathan Schwartz on open source

(Comments from the NetBeans session)

We have been held captive by the Java developers. The future is about reaching out to people without deep expertise.

The number of people passionate about open source licenses far outweighs those who have actually read them. Everyone is a lawyer now.

If I post a hit video to YouTube, someone else is monetising my free content. Something is wrong with that (Me: There is definitely a theme developing with all of these hints about compensating those who create software or content for free. So Sun is not only open sourcing all of their stuff, but paying others for their open source stuff. Wow).

By Greg Luck

As Terracotta’s CTO, Greg (@gregrluck) is entrusted with understanding market and technology forces and the business drivers that impact Terracotta’s product innovation and customer success. He helps shape company and technology strategy and designs many of the features in Terracotta’s products. Greg came to Terracotta on the acquisition of the popular caching project Ehcache which he founded in 2003. Prior to joining Terracotta, Greg served as Chief Architect at Australian online travel giant Wotif.com. He also served as a lead consultant for ThoughtWorks on accounts in the United States and Australia, was CIO at Virgin Blue, Tempo Services, Stamford Hotels and Resorts and Australian Resorts and spent seven years as a Chartered Accountant in KPMG’s small business and insolvency divisions. He is a regular speaker at conferences and contributor of articles to the technical press.