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Red Hat Not Satisfied with Sun's New Java License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the talking-coffee-related-smack dept.

twofish writes "According to a Register article Sun Microsystems' new GNU/Linux-friendly Java license does not go far enough for Red Hat. Brian Stevens, Red Hat CTO, says Sun should have open-sourced Java instead. The new license does have the support of Canonical (main Ubuntu sponsor), Gentoo and Debian." From the article: "He says the failure to open-source Java means that it can't be used on millions of $100, Linux-powered PCs envisioned under Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child project, to bring affordable computing to children in developing nations. Negroponte wants only open source software on the machines, according to Red Hat, which is a member of the project."

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  1. Have any of you assholes who bitch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    about how RedHat are ungrateful bastards actually read the license? It has some serious nastiness in it.

    Section 2 says you may not use it to develop Java software that is to be run on another system or use it in conjunction with any other language that implements similar APIs.

    Section 4 says that if your OS fails to implement any functionality Sun wishes to use for the Java runtime you have 90 days to make it happen or you must stop distributing the runtime.

    Beware of greeks bearing gifts is all I say.

  2. Re:That's kind of a cheap shot... by advocate_one · · Score: 0, Troll
    I hate to say it, but how the heck do they expect Java apps to run well on this $100 laptop anyway? I like Java, my company works mostly in Java, but it can be a resource hog. How is it that they would even want to run it on these stripped down machines?

    b0ll0cks... I was running java apps on my old 486 SX 2 50 with win 3.1 and only 4 Meg of RAM way back in '94... I didn't notice any lack of performance then... and the Negroponte machine has better specs than that... way better.

    This Java is slow FUD meme has been running ever since MS got their ass kicked by Sun and had to stop distributing that extended MS Java. I wonder why...

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  3. Still warm down here! by Reverend528 · · Score: 0, Troll

    It'll be a cold day in hell before Sun releases the source code to any software that people actually use.

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  4. Re:That's kind of a cheap shot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    they don't think it's really open source

    Get a fucking clue, you American cuntbag!

    open source != free software

    You can open up your sources to everyone on the planet and forbid that they are compiled at all.