On Feb 23, 2012, at 11:22 AM, Alan Bourke wrote:
> I don't pretend to understand the licencing intricacies, but isn't the
> OpenJDK initiative supposed to remove the 'betting the company' risk? I
> notice that the more recent Linux distros I've looked at (like Mint)
> have OpenJDK by default, and IcedTea browser plugins etc.
That's the intention, but Oracle is not making it easy. The roadblocks
they are creating to the open efforts is the reason that the Apache Software
Foundation pulled out of the Java Community Project.
-- Ed Leafe
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