OSNews: The Java Open Source Debate Jun 12, 2005, 01 :00 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (9109 reads) (Other stories by Andy Roberts)
"The recent announcement from Apache regarding their plans to embark on their own J2SE implementation called Harmony has re-ignited the long-running Java/OSS debate. James 'Father of Java' Gosling reacted in an unexpected way by giving a misleading view of what open source is really all about. Now that the dust has settled a little bit, it's time for an article that is not championing the cause for the relicensing of Sun's implementation under more permissive, open source terms, but simply a look at what could (and could not) happen under the open source model..."
