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+-   Sun: Java will be free this year on Sunday June 22 2008, @08:51PM Ian Whyde

Submitted by Ian Whyde on Sunday June 22 2008, @08:51PM
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Ian Whyde writes "The struggle to open up Java completely is finally coming to an end.

Simon Phipps, the chief open source officer at Sun Microsystems, said: "There were a couple of holdouts there. One was the area to do with raster graphics and 2D graphics. That turned out to be owned by a company that didn't want us to release that code as open source. We negotiated with them and because they've said 'yes, you can open source the code'..."

The only element that's left now is actually a sound-related component within Java. We finally decided that the vendor that's involved there just isn't going to play ball and we're rewriting the code from scratch. That's going to be done within the next couple of months."

Phipps says Java is expected to be completely free within the coming few months."
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