Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 19th Jun 2008 20:28 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Back in May 2006, Sun announced during the JavaOne conference it would release Java as open source, licensed as GPL software. While it was released as GPL, it still contained about 5 percent proprietary, non-free code - the Java trap, as the FSF calls it. The FSF called to dismantle this trap, and now the IcedTea project has reached an important milestone.
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It is however true that with the final 5% of non-free code eliminated in the openjdk project the Java Trap as a whole is history.
...and for more pragmatic individuals, there never was a "Java Trap." While the individuals involved are to be congratulated on technical achievement, I still feel that the whole "Java Trap" was more political than practical.
Yes, free software is good, but it isn't always better.
If anyone deserves a large amount of credit here, it is Sun for listening to their developers and doing what they asked for.
Edited 2008-06-19 21:29 UTC