Interesting article at http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,373117,00.html With a key legal victory in its pocket, Sun Microsystems Inc. (SUNW) is firming up plans to loosen its grip on the Java programming language. Sun is drafting new, more open Java licenses that could lead to the release of Java as open source code. If successful, that could exponentially expand Java's developer and user bases. [...] We think there are some interesting advantages to the open source model," said Alan Baratz, president of Sun's Java software division, in Cupertino, Calif. [...] The article goes on to talk about politics of the Microsoft case, ISO standards, etc. It explicitly mentions the Jini license as a model for how Sun might release Java. [EMAIL PROTECTED] . . . . . . . . http://www.media.mit.edu/~nelson/
