Government Computer News: Sun's McNealy: Java Won't Be Open Source

[ Thanks to Jason Greenwood for this link. ]

"Despite urging from competitors and open source advocates, Sun Microsystems Inc. of Santa Clara, Calif., will not open the source to its Java programming language anytime soon, said Sun CEO Scott McNealy during a news conference at the 2004 FOSE conference.

"'We're trying to understand what problem does it solve that is not already solved,' McNealy said..."

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