Now that Java has a fully open sourced implementation in RedHat's IcedTea, Neil McAllister questions whether an open Java even matters: "Even as Java has stretched outward to embrace more concepts and technologies - adding APIs and language features as it goes - newer, more lightweight tools have appeared that do most of what Java aims to do. And they often do it better."
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2006-02-15
The "java trap" only mattered to a tiny number of open source purists. It'll make no difference one way or the other to the use of Java that such a thing as "open" java exists.