Awesome...sun to release Java under GPL!

[Ted Roche]

On Nov 13, 2006, at 2:45 PM, Bruce Dawson wrote:

> Hmmm. In line with the latest Microsoft/Novell conspiracy  
> theories... I
> wonder what Microsoft was going to do to Java that got Sun to do  
> this? ;-)

Sun CEO confirms Java is free. On his blog, Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz  
confirms it's true:

 From http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/fueling_the_network_effect

"Few folks, at least outside of Sun, understand how pervasively  
successful the Java platform, and the community supporting it, have  
been over the past decade. But Java runs on more devices than  
Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, Symbian and the Mac combined..."

"And in closing, I want to put one nagging item to rest... By  
admitting that one of the strongest motivations to select the GPL was  
the announcement made last week by Novell and Microsoft, suggesting  
that free and open source software wasn't safe unless a royalty was  
being paid. As an executive from one of those companies said, "free  
has to have a price." ... That's nonsense."


Ted Roche
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