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Java To Be Opened For Christmas?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ho-ho-ho dept.

MBCook writes "At the Oracle OpenWorld conference, Sun's CEO Jonathan Schwartz announced on Wednesday morning that Java would be opened within 30-60 days, which would would mean about Christmas Day at the latest. Sun first announced they would do this back in May at JavaOne but didn't give a date. We've seen rumblings before on this topic. Schwartz also commented on the companies Sun Fire servers, Sun's relationship with Oracle, and general trends."

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  1. CDDL? I don't think so... by hacker · · Score: 0, Troll

    Open has very different terms, and CDDL is not one of them, period. I'm not saying it has to be GPL or BSD licensed, but CDDL is simply an unworkable license, since it is incompatible with the majority of Open Source licenses out there.

    Opening Java might sound all well and good, but not if you can't do anything at all with it, without violating the license terms.

    Thanks, but no.