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Sun's Java Will Be Free This Year
Ian Whyde notes that Sun is finally coming to the end of its struggle to open up Java completely. Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, said: "There were a couple of holdouts there. One was the area to do with raster graphics and 2D graphics. That turned out to be owned by a company that didn't want us to release that code as open source. We negotiated with them and because they've said 'yes, you can open source the code'... The only element that's left now is actually a sound-related component within Java. We finally decided that the vendor that's involved there just isn't going to play ball and we're rewriting the code from scratch. That's going to be done within the next couple of months." In another sense the milestone of a free Java was reached this week when IcedTea passed the rigorous Java Test Compatibility Kit.
I don't see (apart from a small subset of problems) why 64-bit support is important - perhaps you have a 64-bit processor and think that everything is automagically twice as good compared to us 32-bitters.
Do you have a current problem that requires 64-bit address space, or are you just a fanboi for the latest and greatest?
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This software should have been freed up years ago.
Too little, too late, IMHO.
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