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Java to be Open Sourced in October

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the coffee-in-the-fall dept.

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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  1. October Revolution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    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."
  2. Re:Should we begin `digging graves?' by 3770 · · Score: 4, Funny

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

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