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Coming soon: a free JavaComing soon: a free JavaPosted Aug 17, 2006 13:57 UTC (Thu) by davecb (subscriber, #1574)Parent article: Coming soon: a free Java
I seriously doubt that issues with the Open Source / Free Software community were ever on Sun's radar. Sun's concern was with Microsoft repeating their previous attempt to "embrace and extend" Java. You may recollect MS had to pay Sun millions of dollars for breach of their contract to use the name "java" for a langage that actually wasn't java. Since MS wrote C#, which is just a MS-specific java by a different name, Sun can no longer protect themselves by restricting the name, and so can loosen the restrictions on our community. --dave
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Coming soon: a free Java Posted Aug 17, 2006 14:41 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] I seriously doubt that issues with the Open Source / Free Software community were ever on Sun's radar.Or vise versa. It's hard to get a group of Phython and Ruby progammers excited about Java. I suppose that some people who are constrained to use Java in a corporate setting will find this to be exciting news.
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