Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Sun Says Java Source Already Available

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the wha-when dept.

mjdroner writes "In an InfoWorld article, Java CTO James Gosling says that source code for Java has been available for 10 years. Gosling claims Java is close to an open source model, though discounts Sun joining the Eclipse Foundation. He goes on to say that Eclipse's endorsement of the standard widget toolkit destroyed interoperability, saying it's based on the windows API, making it problematic to run on other platforms."

2 of 304 comments (clear)

  1. WTF? by bcmm · · Score: 1, Troll

    The article seems to have gone down before it could be mirrored, but there is an article on the same story here.

    It doesn't really seem to explain WTF they think they mean, or what they've been taking. Is there somewhere where I can just download the Java source code, modify it, and distribute it, or do I need special permission and a weird license? That's not open source. If that's what they meant by their promise to open source everything, they lied.

    --
    # cat /dev/mem | strings | grep -i llama
    Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
  2. Re:It's available? by GbrDead · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is not a link to the source. This is not even a link to the license, as I suspected sat first. Got any better?