Java to be Open Sourced in October

thePowerOfGrayskull writes "Sun is now stating that the Hotspot JVM and javac will be open-sourced in October of this year, with the rest to follow by the end of 2007. There is still no word as to which license it will be released under. For those who haven't seen it yet, Sun has previously opened a public developer community site for soliciting feedback and providing updates about the process."

Comments

Should we begin `digging graves?'

[bogaboga]

Should we begin digging Kaffe's and GNU ClassPath's graves? I hope not. By the way, we shuld not be suprised if we hear OSS zealots saying that this action should have come earlier. Some will even say it is too little too late.

Re:Big deal for OSS

[Anonymous Coward]

Because it's Java, and it tries to solve everything for everyone.

Java - the current, close source Java - is unstable enough that most commerical Java applications come bundled with a specific JRE that's the ONLY JRE they'll run under. So for every Java application I have installed, I get to waste 50MB on yet another JRE install for whichever patch level of Java is required for that given application.

Sun can't keep their own internal, closed version of Java stable between releases. It's no wonder they don't think anyone else can, either.

Re:October Revolution

[JavaLord]

Slashdot should really have a red layout instead of green.

Re:Does it matter?

[crhylove]

I'm not some total n00b who doesn't know when he's got a virus. LOL. I don't like the performance hit associated with JRE, the fact that JRE is running ALL THE TIME cluttering up my task bar, etc.. I'm particular about this sort of thing, which is also why I use TinyXP. If you haven't tried TinyXP yet, you really should. It's a phenomenally clean distribution of Windows that runs very, very well.

I continually try JRE out through different versions because as a free speech advocate I want to support FreeNet. It never ceases to piss me off though (both FreeNet and JRE, actually).

rhY