http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/0,2000061733,39149502,00.htm
Supposedly quoting directly from a high ranking Sun official... I'm still not sure I believe it though.
And then true or not, there's the question of whether it's a good idea or not. What do you fellow Tri-JUG'ers think? I have to admit, I agree with what Sun was saying before, to a degree.. if open sourcing Java leads to compatibility problems, then we've lost one of the big advantages of Java.
OTOH, there are already FOSS Java implementations, so if Sun opens the source to the reference implementation, maybe it wouldn't hurt anything. I'm assuming they would still retain control of the brand name, and presumably anybody wanting to call their Java implementation "Java" would have to pass Sun's compatibility tests, much like the situation today for J2EE app servers...
TTYL,
Phil R.
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