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Sun Joins the Free Software Foundation

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the putting-themselves-out-there dept.

RLiegh writes "Ars Technica reports that Sun has joined the FSF Corporate Patron program. The article explains that the FSF corporate program allows companies to provide financial assistance to the FSF in return for license consulting services. The article goes on to observe that this move is doubtlessly motivated by Sun's interest in GPL3's direction. Now that Sun has opened up Java and become an FSF corporate sponsor...could the move to dual license OpenSolaris under the GPL3 be far behind?"

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  1. Re:Sun opened up Java? by EsbenMoseHansen · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I really, really dislike Java, but nevertheless: Debian unstable has Sun's Java in it's repositories; I know since I have to use that mess too often at work. Not sure what the "default" install is, but I'm sure it will hit Debian stable in 5 or 6 years ;)

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