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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. Show some gratitiude by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Just because it's not as good as it could possibly have been doesn't make Sun's actions bad. They could have started charging us for Java, but instead they made it a little more open. I think we should be applauding a step in the right direction in order to encourage them to make more, instead of givin them the impression that they are hated, because why would you do anything for a group that hates you?

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    Philosophy.