You can bet that regulatory agencies will look at this deal closely. Not only in the US and not only at the deal itself but also how Oracle will behave in the near future.
Luc On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 09:09 -0700, Phil Hagelberg wrote: > Sean Devlin <francoisdev...@gmail.com> writes: > > > *Will Java continue to be open source? > > It is simply not possible for this to go away. Future development on > Java _could_ be released under developer-hostile licenses, but this > would probably be a good thing if the license were bad enough since it > would make it obvious that the OpenJDK is the future, and folks with any > sense would just give up on the official Sun version. > > Probably the worst that could happen is that the license stays the same, > (meaning a community-driven fork doesn't happen) but the bureaucracy > around the project increases to the point of stagnation. > > -Phil > > > > Luc Préfontaine Armageddon was yesterday, today we have a real problem... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
