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Slow Java open-sourcing

Posted Jun 26, 2008 10:49 UTC (Thu) by alex (subscriber, #1355)
In reply to: Symbian to be another open mobile platform by kripkenstein
Parent article: Symbian to be another open mobile platform

To be fair to Sun it's not like the control all the code from day zero. Proprietary code bases
tend to have all sorts of stuff in it and that takes a while to sort out.

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Posted Jun 26, 2008 13:10 UTC (Thu) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

Which is exactly why we should be skeptical of promises to open the 
code -- the companies don't necessarily have the power to make the promise 
reality.