Sun’s Corporate Responsibility Report Includes Open Source
Sun released its first ever corporate social responsibility (CSR) report this January. (You may read or download it here.) It is clear from the front page of their CSR website that Sun is making a strong effort to be a leading corporate citizen by working toward “economic, environmental and social sustainability.” Their website states, “Sun’s corporate social responsibility strategy can be defined in three words: Innovate, Act, and Share.”
It makes a special effort to describe the benefits of open source. Starting on page twenty-six, Sun describes what it is doing to “Share” and its efforts to make a lot of its software open. They use the open sourcing of key Java implementations under the GNU General Public License 2 (GPLv2) as an example of their philosophy “that sharing and building communities through inclusion and open systems makes innovation and participation possible.”
I was excited to see that Sun considers “Sharing” and open source a pillar in the foundation of their efforts to be a more responsible corporate citizen. Please take a look and tell me what you think. I’d love to read what the Mozilla community thinks of the CSR report that Sun has released.
“that sharing and building communities through inclusion and open [reading: free] systems makes innovation and participation possible.”
I’d have given anything to see Stallman’s face when he heard about it. Must have been like a dream come true, a 25 year old dream mind you.