[OSM-dev] [OSM-talk] SUN Java released under GPL

Nick Hill nick at nickhill.co.uk
Fri Nov 17 12:59:33 GMT 2006


Jonathan Schwartz makes an interesting speech as the prelude to the release of 
Java as Free Software. Much that is very relevant to OSM.

In particular, how our view in UK/N.America of how most people do/will interact 
with the Internet is distorted.

http://mediacast.sun.com/share/tmarble/Sun_Opens_Java.ogg

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Nick Hill wrote:
> WHOOPPEEE!
> 
> Sun has finally released Java under the GNU GPL. This comes a littel over 2 
> years after SUN made it possible for third party authors to make free 
> implementations of Java.




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