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Having it both ways

Having it both ways

Posted Feb 12, 2013 12:03 UTC (Tue) by epa (subscriber, #39769)
In reply to: Having it both ways by man_ls
Parent article: Chromatic: Goodnight, Parrot

Oracle's JVM may be proprietary software (depending on what you download), but there are plenty of free virtual machines to run the language. It's not an open standard in the sense of being collaboratively developed by a standards body, but nor are lots of good and free things (X is an open standard; Wayland is not). More or less the same remarks apply to .NET.


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