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The "Return" of Java Discussed

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the off-again-on-again-languages dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Following on from the marvelous recent James Gosling interview highlighted in Slashdot last week, it would seem that a renewed momentum is building up for his cross-platform creation, if this editorial is anything to go by. It's called 'Java is Back!' But did it ever go anywhere?"

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  1. Re:Return of Java by latroM · · Score: 5, Informative

    The prepondereance of GNU fanboys means that Java gets dissed for not being Free(tm).

    The SUN's java implementation is non-free but there are other free implementations of the java standard, look at http://www.kaffe.org/ for one.