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."

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October Revolution

[Anonymous Coward]

Java to be Open Sourced in October

Hey, it's another October Revolutinon!

Long live the programmer-letariat!

"While the Copyright exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no Copyright."

Re:Should we begin `digging graves?'

[3770]

Don't use the "d"-word here. ;)

Five Year Everybody Dies Plan?

[Anonymous Coward]

It depends, will Gosling announce a "Five Year Everybody Dies Plan"?

Re:Okay, but what does "open source" mean?

[mrchaotica]

Should the Berkeley people complain about GPL 'purposely endangering' BSD compatibility?

No, but they do anyway...

Let's turn Java into TMMLPTEALPAITAFNFAL!

[Jesus_666]

But Java would be so much better if it was more like $MY_FAVOURITE_LANGUAGE! For example, it's lacking some features found in PHP like being mixable with HTML code and not using namespaces! And it should have the syntactic goodness of both Ruby and Haskell! Speaking of Haskell, why doesn't Java use type inference everywhere? Forcing the user to give a type only makes things complicated. Also, function declarations should not look like String foobar(int blah, int fhqwhgads) - foobar::Integer -> Integer -> String is much better for a completely nonspecific reason that everyone with two brain cells to rub together could see (just as he could see that such declarations should be optional since they could be inferred by the compiler). Also, Java should run on Dotnet and use FLTK as the main GUI toolkit.

And Javadoc should translate all source code comments into Esperanto.