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Java And Open Source
In November, Sun Microsystems moved to “open source” status for Java, after a decade of maintaining proprietary status for the portable programming language. Specifically, Sun has placed Java into the public domain by putting it under GPL – an acronym for General Public License. What this means is that software …
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January 2, 2007 -
JBoss CEO: Show Me The Money
Sys-Con is quoting Marc Fleury, JBoss founder & CEO and now SVP & GM of JBoss Division at Red Hat, as having said: “(while Red Hat) really haven’t gotten in the way”…”the R&D really hasn’t benefited from a huge investment, which I was hoping for and was the main reason …
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November 28, 2006 -
Sun Gets Press, Maintains Control
So, the news is official: (and yes, I agree with IBM’s question as to why Sun didn’t join one of the community projects focused on delivering open source implementations of Java SE, ME and EE instead of trying to build their own community.) Sun has decided to use GPLv2 for …
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November 14, 2006 -
OpenJavaEE And OpenJDK
There’s a lot of confusion about what Sun actually intends to do when they use the term “open source java”. We shouldn’t confuse the Java SE standard with the Java SE reference implementation. Check out Sun’s (new) Open Source Java page. If you look at the “OpenJDK” paragraph in the …
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October 31, 2006
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