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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."

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  1. ESR... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does ESR do anything nowadays other than open the issue of pressuring people? He's like an anti-RIAA. Just as annoying, but the force goes in the opposite vector.