[SLUG] Java installation Fedora Core 6 question

[DAVID KNIGHT]

I was recently reading about this. Apparently Sun released about 95% of the source code for Java. The remaining 5% was protected by third parties and so could not be released. The more I read about this kind of thing the more I realise how much closed source is holding us back.

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From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84 at yahoo.co.uk>
To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, 17 January, 2008 9:57:50 PM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Java installation Fedora Core 6 question

Ross Kendall wrote:
> Go ahead and install the 
> Sun Java, 

If you have some apps that were using GCJ then don't be surprised if
 one 
or more stop working in my experience, but you can work around that by 
telling them to use GCJ instead of the closed Sun binaries.

> The reason why FC6 doesn't  come with Sun's Java is because it is 
> classed as 'non-free' software (political and licencing reasons, not 
> technical ones).

Agreed.

Steve O





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