More Sun news: Sun promises to open-source Java

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Friday 19 May 2006 12:53, Chanchao wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 14:56 -0400, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> > Yes.  So does Sun deserve to be booed, cheered or just get a few golf
> > claps?
>
> How about a big shrug of the shoulders? Typical case of companies
> open-sourcing something only when they're with their backs to the wall /
> facing the abyss.   I've never seen Java software of any size/complexity
> that wasn't bloat-city.
>
how about azureus? always seemed pretty good to me
> Limewire came close I guess.  (Not saying that this is good software by
> whatever standard, but it did 'work'.)
>
> Anyway it's moderately useful because it makes installation on Ubuntu
> possible for people with a CLI-allergy.  So that just leaves MP3 and
> Flash. :)
sudo apt-get install flashplayer-plugin