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Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Posted Jan 11, 2005 0:03 UTC (Tue) by armijn (subscriber, #3653)
Parent article: Sun yanks FreeBSD's Java license

Hmm, has anyone even bothered reading the article that was referred to
in the first comment before picking up the flamethrowers?

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Posted Jan 11, 2005 1:39 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Of course. The problem is not "if Sun made such move out of malice".

The problem is that Sun was able to do this - and it's quite real problem: if tomorrow Sun will have "change of heart" and will recall all licenses... - there are literally nothing that can be done in short term.

RMS long ago written about it here. Looks like he was right after all...