The Duke of Java is Finally Free Monday 2006-11-13
As rumors buzzed as flies for the last couple of months, Sun has finally announced that it releases its Java implementation under the GNU GPLv2 license.
The Duke is free, free at last. But what does it all mean?
For a long time during the first successful years of Java, many developers urged SUN to submit Java to one or the other of the standards bodies of the world. The intention was to make sure that Java, the platform wouldn’t crash into the non standards diversity, that would make it unusable. But SUN stood firm and demanded that all additions to the platform, and all its implementations should follow the “pure Java” standards set out by SUN.
Microsoft, who licensed Java from SUN, wanted Java to be seen as just another programming language, and made additions to it, that it thought was missing. They did this in violation of the license and after a long legal battle had to pay dearly.
As Java has developed and matured over the years, many Java experts has grown comfortable with SUN:s firm grip on the language and the platform, and have come to believe, this is the way for Java to survive .
So what now? What will happen when Java is GPL’d ? Will it turn as wild as JavaScript or CSS and other web technologies, with a plethora of small differences between implementation, that will drive developers nuts ?
Read this ZDNet article by Martin LaMonica, for more!
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- Author : Petit
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