Didn’t I just write about Sun and their relative degree of cluelessness when it comes to open source? Well, here we are again.

According to Jonathan Schwartz, Sun’s Java Community Process (JCP) embodies the characteristics of the bazaar model in Eric Raymond’s The Cathedral and The Bazaar, a seminal essay on the revolution in software development, more accurately than Linux itself. The absurdity of this claim lies in the fact that Sun and companies like it are built upon processes that are the very things that the cathedral model describes.

A recent Slashdot post led me to a Yahoo! News post where Eric Raymond is responding to the claim from Sun Microsystems.

At this point, part of the handful that read this weblog probably feel like I do when I find myself in a group discussing this year’s lineup for the bowl games of American college football. Here it is in plain English. A large corporate entity is claiming that a process of theirs actually embodies the principles of open, free collaboration in software development more accurately than the groups that developed these new approaches to software development. The details of the situation would leave you laughing at Sun in ridicule, but I will spare you the time and myself the trouble.

Sorry for the slackness with the writing; the work schedule lately leaves me pretty uninspired at the end of day, particularly when the end of the day is 8:00 or 9:00 PM.