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Sun Demurs On Open-Source Java

Posted by timothy on from the titles-redone-at-great-expense dept.

Tarantolato writes "A Sun spokesman and James Gosling now say that there are no set plans to distribute Java under an open-source license. According to Gosling, 'the debate is still going on, fast and furious'. Concerns about forking are cited, as usual."

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  1. I've said this long ago... by midifarm · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Apple needs to just bite the bullet and acquire Sun. The bonus of this would be owning SGI and Cray. Any thoughts?

    Peace

  2. Can't they fight unwanted forks with trademarks by prostoalex · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to Sun, Java and JVM are registered trademarks. Since Sun owns the trademarks, can't they fight the unwanted forks by exercising the trademark laws?

    The forks that are compliant and please Sun Micro can use Java(tm) and can distribute JVM(tm). The forks that Sun doesn't really care about and the ones that pollute the Java world would just have to be something different, call them Jaba, Jamboree or something else, but no one is allowed to use the trademarked terms without Sun's permissions.

  3. Re:Thanks Sun! by Decaff · · Score: 4, Interesting

    So.

    A company that has been promoting UNIX since the early 1980s sickens you.

    A company that has pioneered open standards for decades sickens you.

    A company that has freely contributed APIs and protocols such as NFS to development community sickens you.

    A company that gives away free compilers and runtimes sickens you.

    A company that uses Linux sickens you.

    Do I detect a slight bit of exaggeration here?