hopefully IBM and Sun will get married and it will all remain free.
On 04 2, 09, at 6:29 PM, Miguel Paraz wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Orlando Andico > <[email protected]> wrote: >> As a corollary to Doc Mana's last statement... >> >> It seems that so long as a piece of software is profitable, there is >> no incentive to Free it. >> >> Java, you may argue... but look at Sun struggling. They've never >> managed to monetize Java effectively. > > in fact, it looks like Sun is taking the road towards making Java > non-free again. > > There's a "No Java 7" meme going around which says there won't be a > Java 7 JSR (Java Specification Request). While there will be a JDK 7, > it won't be under an open spec process. > > It's Complicated... http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/no_more_java_7 > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
