Interview with Simon Phipps  Simon Phipps defends the open-
source roots of Sun and the GPL-ization of Java.  Before joining
Sun in 2001, Simon Phipps spent ten years at IBM, where he was
Chief Java and XML Evangelist. He first came across free
software in the late 1980s, when he was selling freeware from
home as a sideline while working at Unisys. Today, Phipps is
Sun's Chief Open Source Officer, and he plays a key role as the
company moves its entire software portfolio to open source.  GM:
What was the state of the open-source activity at Sun when you
joined?  SP: I regard Sun as the original open-source startup
company. It's the first long-lived company I can think of that
used open source as the basis of a business model. If you look
back down Sun's history, through the decades, you see that Sun
kept on working openly with communities around software and
hardware. It did it with NFS, it did with TCP/IP, it did with
Java, and it's continuing to do it now with OpenSolaris and the
rest of the portfolio. So, i