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Sun Agrees to Talk to IBM over Open Sourcing Java

Posted by michael on from the but-can-they-walk-the-walk dept.

comforteagle writes "Sun has agreed to meet with IBM to further discuss the issue of open sourcing Java with them. 'Sun is closely evaluating the effectiveness of the process.' Could Sun be coming around to actually doing this?"

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  1. Conflict of Interests by a!b!c! · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why do you think Slashdot is posting two stories a day about open sourcing Java for Developers?

    What does OSDN stand for again?

    Sorry, if others have mentioned this already.

  2. Hooray by ximor_iksivich · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    At last I can create "Blue Java" Goodbye cruel case sensitivity :D

    Anyone else think this senario might happen..?

  3. C++ with WxWidgets by Futurepower(R) · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    For those who use GUIs, Java is not cross-platform. Java requires Java to be installed, and it isn't installed on recent copies of Windows. "Cross-platform" is not completely true.

    I haven't been doing (much) cross-platform programming, but I'm intense about finding an acceptable way. I predicted the downfall of Novell long before it happened, and now I'm predicting that Linux will eventually become the only commonly used desktop OS, due to the fact that Microsoft managers do not seem to be able to find a way to live in the world without being abusive. Now is not the time to write a lot of Microsoft-specific code.

    C++ with WxWidgets (formerly WxWindows until they were threatened by Microsoft) seems the best way.

    However, the real answer is for Java to become useful for those who need extensive GUIs and fast execution. It's obvious that Java is on the right track. Programmers of business applications don't want to worry about memory allocation.