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Wired: Sun U-Turns on Open Java Plan

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“Sun Microsystems has decided against opening its Java
programming language as an international standard and is starting
to look for other options.

“The company has been planning since November 1996 to submit
Java as an open standard to the International Organization for
Standardization (ISO), but on Thursday the company confirmed that
it will not follow through with an actual submission…”


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