Sun Looks To GPL3 For Java, Solaris

daria42 writes "Sun is leaning toward changing the license for Java and Solaris to the GNU GPL version 3. The article has some insightful comments from Sun boss Jonathan Schwartz. '"Will we GPL Solaris? We want to ensure we can interact with the GPL community and the Mozilla community and the BSD community," he says.'"

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Re:Java as a first class citzen on FOSS Desktops

[Sax Maniac]

Now that Java is OpenSource ... will we see it on more desktop applications?

I was going to respond to your post with my Java(TM) capable browser. I waited a minute or so for it to start, but the web page was too big and it ran out of memory. So I went and dug out the shortcut and restarted the VM with -Xmx256m of memory. While it was starting up, I fired up Notepad and composed the text into it. Sure enough, this time the page loaded up after a minute or two, so I went to cut and paste it out of Notepad. But that got completely swapped out by Java, so I had to wait for it swap Java out and Notepad back in. Good, I press ^C, and go back to Java, and... well, then I rotated some laundry while it was coming back.

I'd email you but my Java(TM) email client requires Java 1.4.2.1 which is different than the 1.3.2.7 that the web browser requires so I can't run them at the same time, or, at least, I haven't figure out how to get the two installations to coexist just yet. Let me reboot and get back to you.

(Posted from a friend's laptop)