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Now Here's an interesting story - Sun's Simon Phipp's is ripping Open Source opponents. Maybe he should call Scott McNealy - iirc, McNealy rejected Open Sourcing Java after IBM suggested it...

Only two years after publicly hugging a Microsoft executive live on stage, Sun's chief technology evangelist Simon Phipps has branded opponents of open source "Luddites" and predicted that the current proprietary vendor dominance will crumble through sheer collective will of a new generation of IT managers.

"The Luddites fighting the move to open source are certain to be defeated. Different parts of the software market may move to open source, at different speeds, but the move is an inevitable societal trend," Phipps vowed.

So if we should abandon proprietary software, should Sun open Java, or should developers shun it? Does Phipps pay any attention to what his company does at all?