"Jonathan Schwartz seems to be demonstrating a genuine commitment to open-sourcing Sun’s intellectual property." Excuse me, but HOW SO? Where is the demonstration? What behavior has demonstrated "genuine commitment"? I ask only so the unwashed and clearly out of touch among us can know. I also want to point out that commitment means NOTHING. It implies nothing. Actual behavior is meaningful. Also, what do you think you mean, what do any of us mean, when we use terms like, "genuine", or "sincere", or "good". Mr. Schwartz's job is to create and maximize, at the edges, at the margin, and wherever else possible, the profit and revenue of Sun, period - that is how his performance is judged, that is how his salary is set, etc. It also makes it reasonably simple to intuit and understand his behavior, which in turn has the added benefit of allowing one to better understand the entity that is Sun - i.e. profit seeking is a context that leads to well understood behavior, hopefully rational, even if strange, obfuscated, and murky at times. And that is all well and good, go Amerika! and all that. But my question to you reader is, are you under the impression, living in a world inside your head of “magical” thinking and childish wish fulfillment, that this is some kind of love-in and "Jonathon" is some kind of hippy dippy ponytail wearing high priest of all that is good and wonderful about OSS and Linux? I would also suggest that if you, as in whomever is reading this, are not on a personal first name basis with Mr. Schwartz, to use the man's last name as a show of respect and more importantly, as a buffer for objective analysis: he is not a pop-culture Disney icon who has invited the world to endear themselves to him, and he to they, through the folk usage of his first name. My almost last question: Why must we give Mr. Schwartz the benefit of the doubt for the moment? He has had it for a long time. His response to the post by Linus Torvalds, as indicated by many posters at this point, is somewhat disingenuous and avoids seriously responding to the charges on the table. Just go read the post by the team lead of SSH for an explanation of what I am alluding to here. So, let us see what Mr. Schwartz, and the company called SUN, that HE RUNS, and for whose PROFITS he is held RESPONSIBLE, does. Final Jeopardy Question: When a Linux/OSS/Free Software person uses the word “good” when describing or discussing behavior or choices related to software development, the industry, OSS, Linux, etc, do you think it has the same meaning Mr. Schwartz ascribes to it when used as a modifier like, “good profits”, or, “good behavior that will lead to good profits”? »

Could not agree more RE: Ajax. It is a nightmare, I don't care what wrapper/framework you use! Not to mention it is a total security disaster waiting to happen. The amount of Ajax initiated http traffic to and from browsers and servers/DBs carrying ALL KINDS of personally identifiable info NOT over https mind you NOR encrypted - I can't believe no one has written anytihg about this. The potential for abuse is wide open. With that said, hopefully one of the other approaches/tools (can you say, "will not be JavaFX," - even my world class Java engineer friend is going with Flex) to doing RIAs (stupid moniker that!) will reach a saturation point such that it will drag the folks who've invested in Ajax over to the easier and softer way! If it weren't for the real elegance and beauty and brilliance of Firebug, doing Ajax would simply be too much pain to bear! :-) »