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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. this would be great... by chrisopherpace · · Score: 1, Troll

    If Java became OSS, this could really be somewhat of a groundbreaker here. Here we would have this OSS, cross-platform, supported in darn near every browser programming language. Maybe some improvements could be made over its speed as well, as Java is really slow compared to other languages. Sun isn't going to really be making any money soon over their SDK (its free as in beer anyhow). I personally don't see why this wasn't done a long time ago. Hopefully there won't be any modification of the standard though, with every person having their own little flavor of Java. That would suck.

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  2. Re:Not very important for me by avante · · Score: 2, Troll

    I am of the mind that I should move away from Java because it is not free enough. In the work I do, ensuring that something is going to remain free and low cost and not get my partners in to political trouble is more important than usual. Truth is, we can't move away, but we can choose other routes.

    I know most people don't need to think along those lines, but in Human Rights work, we need to more and more. We do use Java in our software, and I would like to see Sun commit to a freer model. It would be a great relief to me because I think Java is a good platform for a number of things.

    Also, maybe I won't get criticized so badly the next time I meet RMS. The last time was very embarrassing. ;)