Will Sun's Java Go Open Source?

Ritalin16 writes "CNet report that Sun Microsystems wants to send Java closer to the open-source world, yet keep it safe from harm. "Project Peabody" adds two licenses that make it easier for outsiders to see the code. But Sun stops short of embracing open-source. Sun's licensing practices for Java are closely watched. Proponents of making Java open-source argue that a different license and development process will help accelerate usage of Java, which faces ongoing competition from Web open-source scripting tools, such as PHP, and Microsoft's .Net line of tools."

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But if sun open sources Java...

[mark-t]

That would be one less thing for Java critics to whine about.

I mean I guess there's still the speed issue, and oh yeah, the swing-is-ugly issue, but really... who does Sun think they are taking away one of the single strongest and fundamentally irrefutable arguments that the anti-Java camp ever had?

Re:Already ditched

[m50d]

But most programs are small programs. If it doesn't work for the small stuff, it doesn't work, because in the end it's all small stuff. I have tried a lot to work in Java, but all it seems to do is combine the extra typing of C with the runtime performance of Python.