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J2SE 5.0 Source Code Bundles Now Available

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the compile-again-run-anywhere dept.

madcowbrit writes "J2SE 5.0 Source code bundles are now available with SCSL and the new and exciting Java Research license! Coders have been asking for Java J2SE source code access under new terms. The new Java Research license gives people more access and options to work with the Java J2SE source code."

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  1. 1st source! by DataDevil · · Score: -1, Troll

    eh..yeah

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  2. Re:If for Research... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No answer yet, so mostly likely rhetorical bullshit. Most commercial installations wisely stay the hell away from modifying infrastructure software.

  3. Re:Odd bitness: 31 bitness, 63 bitness, asshole!!! by karniv0re · · Score: 0, Troll

    I hate Java without uint and ulong.

    Write a wrapper and stop whining.

  4. Parent is a leech by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    [quote]
    I would very much like to see how Sun has
    implemented certain optimizations for Java and
    bring those over to Mono (or to other open source
    Java VMs, VMs in general, JIT engines, compilers
    or scripting languages).
    [/quote]

    Thank you so much for exposing the heart of 99% of OSS advocates: To rip what is good from other developers to incorporate into their own interestes. The other 1% recognize that the purpose of OSS is to use the source to better improve apon it and 'give back' to the community. The parent author is somehow 'disappointed' that sun has chosen to protect their IP (and gee, i wonder why they feel the need to do _that_) and as so elequently displayed the problem with the OSS community.

    -Chris

  5. Re:If for Research... by Shinobi · · Score: -1, Troll

    So, basically, all you want to be able to do is to rip them off instead of thinking and working yourself?

    Glad to know that one open source "developer" openly admits it. Albeit you're not the first. The whole GNU thing is plagiarization at its finest.

  6. Never in a million years... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    No matter how much you all bitch and complain, Sun will never release Java as totally GPL or even LGPL licensed. They have a number of trade and service marks they have to protect. Patents as well. [This was recently an issue w/ the Kodak lawsuit]

    Even if they were to go with a open-source, public available-released type of a license, that would put alot of businesses in hot water as Java is utilized in a number of applications, primarly for private, internal and commercial means.

    Heck, I developed alot of things under Java and there is no way in hell I would ever release my source code to the general public, even under the GPL, BSD modified or some LGPL-like license.

    Just leave Sun alone and deal with it. Don't like their product, don't use it.