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Open-sourcing Java
Should Sun open-source Java? "The Big Question" keynote debate at JavaOne in San Francisco was devoted to this question.
Now, I don't really know what open-sourcing a language means, but this is obviously an important question... The Java language specification and the JVM spec are both public. The Sun JVM isn't open source, but there are many other Java VMs out there. The community process is controlled by Sun, but then again some process must exist if you want the language to remain cohesive, and someone or some group will have to control this process. So it seems that this is ultimately about community dynamics. Languages create communities. Communities shape the way languages evolve. |
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