SAN FRANCISCO -- Sun Microsystems Inc. at its JavaOne conference today announced plans to open source Java, but said before it does so company officials have to be certain the move won't lead to diverging paths in the code.
Richard Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, made it absolutely clear that Java would be opened source.
Very interesting but not totally shocking. Sun already has plans to move Solaris totally into the open source model. OpenSolaris.org was opened and already has working open source OS.
In the end, it will be kinda like the Fedora project before the Fedora Foundation was created =)
Perhaps Sun sees that the open source model is the only way to stay in the fight ;)
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