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15 March 2007
The Other Open Source Java
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Sun's Java is not the only one going open source : In spite of a deal with the U.S.-based software giant Microsoft, the government pledg...
12 February 2007
Not Your Average Smith: Updated
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As someone who spends a lot of time wandering around the free software world, I am still constantly amazed to happen upon interesting projec...
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23 January 2007
The Coming Java Tsunami
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I think this is just the first of many such decisions, all born of Sun's enlightened choice of the GNU GPL for Java: Python was origina...
29 December 2006
Those who Cannot Remember the Past...
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...are condemned to release again it ten years later. I was interest to read that Sun has launched its Looking Glass interface. Not just ...
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30 November 2006
Sun Opts for GNU GPL v2.5
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I've written elsewhere about my pleasant surprise at Sun choosing the GNU GPL for Java. But an obvious question that follows on from t...
21 November 2006
Diddling Around with CDDL
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Here's a lovely piece of Jesuitical reasoning: Could, paradoxically, Sun's rejection of the CDDL for Java project be the best thing...
14 November 2006
Why Sun Mobilised the GPL Now....
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Here's a fascinating analysis of why Sun went for the GPL and why now: In summary, Sun opensourcing Java is all driven by mobile. The t...
Is Sun Trying Too Hard to Be Good?
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Not content with GPL'ing Java (for which they have my unalloyed admiration), Sun has now also given some dosh to Creative Commons. What...
03 October 2006
Feeling Mule-ish
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Lots of people seem to be getting excited about Mule and MuleSource . I would too if it weren't for sentences like this : Mule is a me...
15 August 2006
Heroes of the Healing
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Java is something of a festering wound in the open source community. Simon Phipps has a nice piece about the "heroes of healing"...
28 May 2006
GPL'ed Java
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I see that Jonathan is still trying to impress me with tantalising hints that he may take Java open source using the GPL.
16 May 2006
Will Java Ever Explode?
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Some fifteen years ago I found myself in a café near the top of Merapi , just outside Yogyakarta in central Java. As now , this was at a ti...
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