On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:40:55 -0700, Kim Lux wrote: [...] > You might also be interested to know that Sun has announced that they > will be open sourcing their Java in the near future. I think that will > pretty much seal the deal that Sun's JRE will be the industry > standard. > > -- > Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc. But under which license? Probably the same as they open sourced solaris. Nothing from solaris can cross pollinate to linux without violating a license. (I always thought the GNU crowd were fanatics, but now I'm rethinking that stance.) IBM, of course, would prefer to use the GPL, as that'd be in their interests. -Thufir
