Open Source Java: "Neutral for Vendors, Good for Developers, and Great for Sun" @ ECLIPSE DEVELOPER'S JOURNAL

The industry has been talking about 'open source Java' for many years and it finally happened. To be honest, I have not been enthusiastic about open sourcing Java. First of all, what does 'open source Java' mean? Java source code has been available for many years. What is the additional benefit of putting such source code under an open source license? Secondly, what kind of open source license we are looking for? Thirdly, if Java is open sourced and controlled by a community, how do we prevent fragmentation and incompatibility?

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#5	scott commented on the 16 Nov 2006 1000 Full time Engineers per year ??? No company could stay in business if that were true...
#4	scott commented on the 16 Nov 2006 1000 Full time Engineers per year ??? No company could stay in business if that were true...
#3	Federico Vela commented on the 16 Nov 2006 Correct me if i'm wrong, but the license is not "pure" GPL but GPL+E which basically makes it a LGPL, meaning that my code can use java without being GPL'd. If this is not correct, then Sun might have just shot itself in the foot.
#2	DragonWriter commented on the 15 Nov 2006 > I expect to see several more versions of > Java, most of them incompatible with each > other, coming out soon. So? There already are several more versions of Java. What keeps the ones that succeed largely compatible isn't licensing (as the non-Sun, non-Microsoft ones are reverse-engineered, not licensed) but the fact that there is no interest in incompatible "Java". Releasing Sun's implementation under the GPL isn't going to change that.
#1	skeptiker commented on the 15 Nov 2006 I expect to see several more versions of Java, most of them incompatible with each other, coming out soon.

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