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Ten years on, Java founder James Gosling sees upside in the open source move, while others believe Sun didn't go far enough Ten years later, the open-sourcing of Java remains a point of contention, ...
Sun continues to hold Java's copyright and will retain final say on what becomes part of the official Java platform, but the company is now welcoming submissions from developers willing to grant Sun ...
With Java and open source technology now as intertwined as they are, it’s no surprise that many announcements out of last week’s JavaOne conference in San Francisco had either a Linux or an open ...
But Marc Fleury, CEO and founder of Atlanta-based JBoss Inc., said open-sourcing Java would be a "trap" into which Sun Microsystems, Java's creator and steward, should not fall. Speaking on a panel of ...
It’s no surprise that Sun Microsystems is making its core Java platform freely available; what is somewhat unexpected is the vendor’s choice of open-source license. In all the open sourcing of its ...
The open source and free software communities have embraced Java, and the fruits of that relationship are starting to show. On the server, projects like Jigsaw, JBoss, Enhydra and Apache's Jakarta are ...