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Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 21:05 UTC, submitted by wuda

Demonstrating a perhaps more aggressive path than anticipated, Sun Microsystems is set to announce the open-sourcing of the core Java platform within 30 to 60 days, Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz said at the Oracle OpenWorld conference on Wednesday morning.

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Bring it on

by sard on Thu 26th Oct 2006 21:20 UTC

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2005-11-16

The sooner you can legally hack the size of the JRE, and GCJ gets some love the better.

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RE: Bring it on

by someone on Fri 27th Oct 2006 00:49 in reply to "Bring it on"

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2006-01-12

I find it interesting to note that a few years ago, KDE had a project named Harmony, which was aimed at creating a LGPL licensed Qt clone. Soon after the start of the project, Trolltech switched Qt/X11's license to the GPL.

Now didn't Apache start a new project to produce a J2SE implementation? What was its name again?

Of course, we should also note that GNU Classpath is almost 100% compatible with J2SE 1.4.2

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RE[2]: Bring it on

by ChiliJ on Fri 27th Oct 2006 08:48 in reply to "RE: Bring it on"

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2005-08-12

So there's a jinx in the Harmony name then?

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