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Old 20-06-2008, 01:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Back in May 2006, Sun announced during the JavaOne conference it would release Java as open source, licensed as GPL software. While it was released as GPL, it still contained about 5 percent proprietary, non-free code - the Java trap, as the FSF calls it. The FSF called to dismantle this trap, and now the IcedTea project has reached an important milestone.

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Old 20-06-2008, 02:05 PM   #2 (permalink)
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good news to all java guys..
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Yay!
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Great news
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Old 20-06-2008, 05:59 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Great News.
A big step towards OSS.
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Thanks for the good news..Will it decrease Java based phone price?
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^^Not really..Java was always Free as in "Free Beer", this thing makes it Free as in "Freedom" as well!
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therefore, we get better compatibility on x86_64 distros
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wow.. nice !!
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good news . . . Now we can expect more improvements on it .
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Old 22-06-2008, 03:53 AM   #16 (permalink)
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ummm... seems to the news of the day for me...
(apart from the holland vs russia craziness )
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Hope the FOSS community would throw their weight behind Java (esp in browsers), so that we can finally have a truly browser independent (unlike AJAX) and completely free (as in freedom) RIA platform (unlike Flash and Silverlight).
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Doesn't matter to me unless foss community make it faster.
Abe koe java ko fast banao. Abhi to yeh vista ki choti behen hai
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Java 6 is pretty fast already compared to older versions and in Java 6 update 10 (Beta now) there are improvements to make applets much better too (to compete in RIA space).
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