OSNews is Exploring the Future of Computing

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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RE[5]: The Java Trap

by binarycrusader on Fri 20th Jun 2008 13:16 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: The Java Trap"

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""It was not impossible. Many distributions did so. "

Many is nothing compared to all distribution ... "

Not when you're only counting distributions that matter.

""It was also not impossible to debug and track bugs since the source code was available"

In certain case , in others it was the problem. "

Splitting hairs.

""I think you're way too disconnected from the process."

I know your not part of the process. Your even against the process. Your also disconnected from reality. "

Sorry, but your statements go against publicly available evidence to the contrary. Thus, I will have to disagree.

By being 100% GPL , it means JAVA will be used natively as opposed to a plug-in or an after tought.

It could be 100% bsd, and it will still have that chance. The license does not matter.

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