Sun to Fully Open Source Java 374
Dionysius, God of Wine and Leaf brings news that Sun Microsystems will be removing the last restrictions on Java to make it completely open source. Sun wants Java to be easily available for use in Linux distributions. We've discussed the steps Sun has taken to open-source Java over the past couple years. From Yahoo! News:
"'We've been engaging with the open-source community for Java to finish off the OpenJDK project, and the specific thing that we've been working on with them is clearing the last bits that we didn't have the rights,' to distribute, Sands said. 'Over the past year, we have pretty much removed most of those encumbrances.' Work still needs to be done to offer the Java sound engine and SNMP code via open source; that effort is expected to be completed this year. Developers, though, may be able to proceed without a component like the sound engine, Sands said.
Better late than early (Score:3, Funny)
Kudos to Sun for waiting so long to open source it. Had it been FOSS back when my company was trying to decide what language to standardize on, we might have picked it instead of Python. Thanks!
What, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Kudos to them, I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Now those children blindly agree to the somewhat less arbitrary GPL which they are incapable of understanding.
This is truly a magnificent day!
Re:Kudos to them, I guess (Score:5, Funny)
And the rest of us use Gentoo. If this new "open source" Java takes less than a week to compile, I will be extremely disappointed in Sun's efforts!
Re:Sun's source code (Score:4, Funny)
No good, you wouldn't be able to see it when doing a nightly build.
Re:Better late than early (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Better late than early (Score:4, Funny)
Dear moderators, i would like to take this opertunity to perform a little victory rickroll as seen here [youtube.com]
For the record OO, also has a clause that stops it being fully GPL, thats why neo office code cant be used, because sun want to take open source contributions and use them in their proprietary version of open office
Go on mod me down, it will only make me stronger
Re:Java and Open Source (Score:3, Funny)
It's all too late (Score:1, Funny)
Re:What fate awaits GNU Classpath? (Score:1, Funny)
So that's what's been holding up Duke Nukem
Re:Better late than early (Score:4, Funny)
Job search hits from Dice.com
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BTW, same site says:
Excel: 10742 jobs
Coffee making: 22 jobs
Micromanagement: 96539 jobs
Yelling on Employees: 1 job (Junior Technolohist)
Re:Kudos to them, I guess (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Better late than early (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Better late than early (Score:4, Funny)
What, you meant static typing check on function declarations? Well, you can have that in Python [oakwinter.com], too. But I can't see how that single feature can make a language suitable for enterprise work.