Red Hat Plans Open Source Java

sthiyaga writes "According to a ComputerWire article, Red Hat is in discussions with Sun about launching an open source version of the Java platform. 'There's always been an interest in an open source implementation of Java developed in a clean room that adheres to the Java standards,' Szulik told ComputerWire. 'We're in discussions with Sun. We'd like to do this with their support.'"

Comments

Re:Gosling favors Open-Source Java

[MisterFancypants]

Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft.

Newsflash: Microsoft has gone and made a better Java -- C#, and funnily enough they not only standardized it with recognized standards bodies (which Sun has never done with Java), they've also released their own shared source version and have not at all stood in the way of third parties making their own implementations (dotGNU, Mono, etc).

Re:Gosling favors Open-Source Java

[tshak]

Some people withing Sun seem to be scared though that an Open-Source Java standard could be "polluted" by Microsoft.


Hah - that's a good one! The issue within Sun is that they can't collect on the Java license of it goes OSS. This is why there's still issues with projects like Tomcat and JBoss. Until Sun makes Java an open standard (ECMA, ISO, etc.), I don't see how an "open Java" can truely exist.

Re:No, it's more likely GCJ

[samhalliday]

gcj only makes native binarys from java source, INFO or byte compiled java code to run on a virtual machine. it is NOT a virtual machine.