Sun will open source Java

May 23rd, 2006 by Pascal Alberty

A big step was made by Sun recently, they finally decide to open source Java. The decision was announced during the JavaOne conference.

We will open source Java, we just need to figure out how

… and when, said software chieftain Rich Green.

By this decision (supported by IBM), Sun hopes to bring more users …

See some news article found by Google News here or this french ZDnet article


2 Responses to “Sun will open source Java”

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    StephaneNo Gravatar Says

    Nice side effect, libraries such as JavaMail and Activation are (finally!) available on the maven repositories…

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    Thought Leadership

    Maybe open source isn’t all that open?…

    Tom Elrod of JBoss suggests…

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