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The Curious Incident of Sun in the Night-Time

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stuff-to-read dept.

Joe Barr writes "NewsForge is carrying a story by Richard Stallman which blasts Sun's recent Java move, claiming it is deceptive and self-serving, makes Java neither free nor even open source, and leaves him wondering why it has attracted so much attention."

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  1. Re:Before all the.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And why the fuck should anyone give a shit about some ideological wackjob about software licenses?

    * The hundreds of thousands of Java developers out there
    * The thousands of companies running their businesses on Java or developing with Java
    * Sun
    * Richard Stallman

    One of those four's opinion is irrelevant, guess which one...