Sadly, it's probably too little too late.
Well we already knew Richard Stallman (www.stallman.org) was a moonbat leftist, now it appears the new "ponytailed CEO" of Sun Swartz may be too. I would have stuck solely with the CDDL license, as they did with Open Solaris, if I was going to allow others to make free copies and run with them in the first place. This wasn't even necessary in my opinion, the source code of Java was already available, this was just capitulating to Stallman's "community", something that could now result in legal Chinese versions of Java, etc. My belief is America will one day regret how we gave control of these industry satndards away to the rest of the world for less than a nickel, simply because they were begging for them.
Big Daddy, if you are alive....GPL is communism! Squawk! Squawk! Ping!
I do not do any webpage/website programming. Do I need to install Java on my computer if I just want to read webpages that use Java? Can anyone answer?
The article misses a point about Novell's mono project. It was in the past always aiming at the moving and patent-protected target that is .NET, but with the new MS/Novell cooperation it's possible that mono will now be kept even with Microsoft's own .NET releases.
Where's algored when you need him?
I never drink java after noon!