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Monday Nov 13, 2006

Java GPLed

Sun has GPLed Java today, and is now clearly the company that has contributed the most to the open source world. Just some of the largest projects off the top of my head:

Open Office suite (competitive with Microsoft Powerpoint, Excell, Word, ...)
The Solaris Operating System
Java
GlassFish, a java Application server (that is also going to be re released under the GPL)
Netbeans, a developer environment
The Ultra Sparc processor (yes!)
jxta a Peer to peer framework

And much much more.

Java is on billions of devices and has millions of developers working on it. It has given birth to many multi billion dollar industries. This has been made possible because these industries, developers and end users trusted Sun, and the process Sun developed. Open Sourcing Java is one more way to strengthen this trust.

Trust is everything

Posted at 03:19PM Nov 13, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in Java | Comments[0]

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