From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GjabW-0000HU-EB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:07:59 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kADC7D3w003648; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:07:13 GMT Received: from slimak.dkm.cz (slimak.dkm.cz [62.24.64.34]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kADC7BIa006188 for ; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:07:13 GMT Received: (qmail 75927 invoked by uid 0); 13 Nov 2006 12:07:09 -0000 Received: from r4bj65.net.upc.cz (84.42.189.65) by slimak.dkm.cz with SMTP; 13 Nov 2006 12:07:09 -0000 From: Boris =?utf-8?q?Du=C5=A1ek?= To: gentoo-java@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-java] Java going GPL; Stallman approves -- News at 11:00 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:07:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200611130008.24137.greg@tassone.net> In-Reply-To: <200611130008.24137.greg@tassone.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-java@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611131307.08986.borisdusek@cmail.cz> X-Archives-Salt: 4f7edfa9-4e43-4150-aa1a-c521ee6170a3 X-Archives-Hash: 5b909163d49fe7a6a062577ffea97c32 Hi Greg, could you please clarify what do you mean by "News at 11:00"? The official Sun site http://www.sun.com/opensource/java tells the live podcasts of the press conference will start at 09:30 Pacific Time. Thanks, Boris On Monday 13 November 2006 09:08, Greg Tassone wrote: > For those that have been asleep/hiding/etc. and haven't heard the news yet: > > Sun has finally decided/confirmed that it will release the Java platform > under the GPL. Furthermore, they've decided that they will do this for the > entire platform under their ownership; including SE, ME, EE, etc. > > The JavaC and HotSpot code are scheduled for release within the next 24 > hours; the VM implementations are scheduled for release early 2007 (by > March). > > Richard Stallman is reportedly happy with the decision, and will be > endorsing the move via video at a press conference with Sun some hours from > now. > > This is significant news < / understatement >. This is the > best-of-the-best scenario I anticipated, but wasn't sure that Sun would > actually do it. IMHO, this move positions Java to grow leaps-and-bounds in > all sectors; I think its growth will surprise many. > > For more details: > > ZDNet Blog: > http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/index.php?p=199 > > Slashdot article: > http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/08/0221255 > ------- > > Woot! > > ~ Greg -- gentoo-java@gentoo.org mailing list