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IBM Offers to Help Sun Open Up Java

Posted by michael on from the with-friends-like-these dept.

dave writes "ESR has opened the issue of pressuring Sun to open source Java, and today IBM throws in their own commitment toward this end. IBM has published an open letter to Sun, proposing that the two companies collaborate on an independent project to open source Java, saying that IBM is ready to provide technical resources and code for the open source Java implementation while Sun provides the open source community with Sun materials, including Java specifications, tests and code."

2 of 475 comments (clear)

  1. But on the other hand, by bsDaemon · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    we're set back that much farther from getting rid of java all together in favour of developing something that is like, well, i dunno, fast and good?

  2. Re:How nice of IBM.. by 110010001000 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No, we don't see the difference because the Open Source zealots claim that you can make more money by open sourcing a product than you can by keeping it closed. Of course this isn't borne out in reality, but that is another issue.