<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">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.<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Stephen O'Neill <soneill84@yahoo.co.uk><br>To: Scarborough Linux User Group <scarborough@mailman.lug.org.uk><br>Sent: Thursday, 17 January, 2008 9:57:50 PM<br>Subject: Re: [SLUG] Java installation Fedora Core 6 question<br><br>Ross Kendall wrote:<br>> Go ahead and install the <br>> Sun Java, <br><br>If
you have some apps that were using GCJ then don't be surprised if
one <br>or more stop working in my experience, but you can work around that by <br>telling them to use GCJ instead of the closed Sun binaries.<br><br>> The reason why FC6 doesn't come with Sun's Java is because it is <br>> classed as 'non-free' software (political and licencing reasons, not <br>> technical ones).<br><br>Agreed.<br><br>Steve O<br><br><br></div><br></div></div></body></html>