[UOML] License for approval

[Bruce Perens]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> I would agree with much that you say if history started in 1999. But 
> it did not - Java's history started in the mid 90s and I would contend 
> that the way Sun handled it back then, before open source had moved 
> from the shadows to the main stage and when the monopolist had not yet 
> been convicted, was the only way it could have succeeded.
Sun management was more worried at the time that if they Open Sourced 
Java, IBM would run away with it.

    Thanks

    Bruce