Sun to open source Java?

Sean Hammond sean.hammond at gmail.com
Mon Nov 13 10:06:55 GMT 2006


It seems you need RealPlayer to watch the webcast. How ironic. Is
Stallman going to appear on a RealPlayer webcast then? I hope not.

On 11/13/06, Daniel Robitaille <robitaille at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> It seems Sun will open source their Java in 10 hours or so:
>
> http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/index.php?p=199
> http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/12/sun-to-opensource-java-and-gpl-it/
>
> the live webcast is scheduled for 9:30am pacific time on Monday morning:
> http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
>
> And according to the zdnet blog, Richard Stallman  will endorse the
> move by video  during the web cast.
>
> I wonder how long it will take before we have a brand new Java package
> for Dapper/Edgy :)
>
> Daniel
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