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Ubuntu Here We Come! - Java Finally To Become 100% Open Source

Sun: "We're trying to get Java into places it's never been before"

Apr. 24, 2008 01:45 PM

With only two weeks to go now before JavaOne, its annual Javaganza for developers, Sun has revealed that Java is at long last to be made 100% open source. "We're trying to get Java into places it's never been before," Rich Sands, group manager for developer marketing at Sun, told an interviewer on Tuesday.

The move, which completes a process begun long ago in November 206, is certain to boost further Java development, especially on the Linux platform. Till now, Linux distributors have been constrained from offering a fully open-source version of Java. Once 100& open source, Java can be offered as part of the free Ubuntu distribution, for example.

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▪ Sun Expands Open-Source Java Plan

▪ Open Source Java? - Why on Earth Would I Want That?

▪ Jonathan Schwartz: Java Goes Open Source By The End Of This Year

▪ Sun Expands Support For Ubuntu Linux

▪ Sun Closer to Ubuntu

▪ Sun Open Sources Java Under GPLv2

▪ Open Source Java: "Neutral for Vendors, Good for Developers, and Great for Sun"

▪ Open Source Java - Do I think Java Will Fork?

▪ Open Source Java: "I For One Think Sun Has Got This One Right," Says Kirk Pepperdine

▪ The Unwritten Story Of Open Source Java

▪ Open Source Java Guru Moving to Joost

▪ After Ubuntu, Windows Looks Increasingly Bad, Increasingly Archaic, Increasingly Unfriendly

▪ Open Source Java Development Kit for Red Hat Enterprise Linux On Its Way

▪ Sun Certifying Ubuntu

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