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Sun will Open Java's Source

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the source-shall-set-you-free dept.

bckrispi writes "An announcement from Sun spokesman Raghavan Srinivas indicates that, contrary to what we've heard in the past, Java will be Open-sourced. "We haven't worked out how to open-source Java, but at some point it will happen," Srinivas said."

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  1. A man, a plan, A canal, panama by goombah99 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    it's a palindrome. now figure out why I posted this. it's not off topic.

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    Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
  2. Re:Reason to use Java? by reverius · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I just saw one without java less than 5 hours ago. It was a windows XP desktop machine. The user plays games, uses it for research for work (he does phone tech support for a specialized application), and browses the web -a lot-. He's had this particular installation of Windows XP on the machine for years...

    and he has NEVER had java.

    you might want to ask microsoft about that.