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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."

3 of 475 comments (clear)

  1. Re:How nice of IBM.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    probably reply
    why, we have linux!

  2. No, its only you by Stone316 · · Score: 0, Troll

    and your weird.

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  3. Re:How nice of IBM.. by LilMikey · · Score: 0, Troll

    I doubt it MS would support this if it's released under GPL. Otherwise, they'll be forced to show their own code if they decided to use the code for themselves.

    ...unless, of course, they use the code without telling anyone which [baseless attack] has probably been happening for years.[/baseless attack]

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