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McNealy Answers: No Open Source Java

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the laid-to-rest dept.

comforteagle writes "Sun CEO Scott McNealy has finally answered the long awaited question that has been on the minds of open source and Java developers. Will Sun open source Java? No. He stated today that Sun sees no solution solved from open sourcing Java that isn't already addressed."

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  1. Re:Open Source is a verb? by moonbender · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Verbing weirds language. Note that this is extremely common thing in English.

    On a sidenote, if anyone has got a link to the original Calvin & Hobbes strip that came up with the previous quote, pleas post. I searched, but couldn't find it.

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  2. Re:Open Source is a verb? by Arker · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Not just English, it's a characteristic of Germanic languages in general. I'm always amused by folks that complain about this and act like it makes them superior... more like it means they don't understand the fundamentals of the language very well.

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