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Sun to Change Java License for Linux
daria42 writes "It looks like the days of downloading Java every time you re-install a Linux box may be at an end. Reports are trickling in that Sun plans to alter the Java license to make it easier to bundle the JRE with Linux. From the article: 'Sun has faced calls several times to open-source Java, which advocates say would foster innovative open-source development. The company has resisted formally open-sourcing all of the Java software, but it has dramatically changed the development process around Java and changed licenses to make it easier to see Java source code.'"
Can we get this stuff off the slashdot front page until Sun decides to do something that will make any difference? It is probably so late in the game that nothing they do will.
In what way is this related to the MS J++ effort? MS tried to pervert the _standard_ through an incompatible implementation, they could have done it without any access to the Sun source. It might even be easier to write a subtly incompatible Java version if you don't look at the source.
If anything, I think the Sun vs. MS war on Java shows why an open reference implementation can strengthen a standard.
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Because there are so few innovative open source java projects right now? Heck, I can hardly keep track.
Name one. You can't, because there isn't. The only innovation Java projects have contributed is making modern computers run like shit. Why the fuck does Java make a 2 GHZ/2 gig RAM computer run like molasses? I could add another gig of RAM and it would still run slow.
Yes, Sun should open source Java right now. That way there can be 10 forks of the project, all of which eventually become incompatible with one another! That would be another win for the already overly complex world of Linux!
OpenBSD's still around? Didn't Theo shut it down after he couldn't gather enough funds to run it? Too bad. If only he would've used the GPL...
Who cares? I don't download and install that huge bloated pig slow Java every time I install Linux.
Who the hell needs Java anyway? Java is irrelevant.