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iTNews: Sun’s “Mustang”: Open, But Not Open-Source

“Sun Microsystems is releasing early source code snapshots of
its next desktop Java release, aiming to get more outside
programmers involved in the development process.

“The company last month released J2SE 5.0, also known as
‘Tiger,’ and recently started work on the next version of J2SE.
Although the project, codenamed ‘Mustang,’ is still in its earliest
stages, Sun has posted the code on its Java.net website for
developers to download, test, and evaluate…”

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