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Java and Linux - an open marriage in search of success

 
Two-years and counting In 2004 Eric Raymond wrote an open letter to Sun Microsystems' then chief executive officer Scott McNealy demanding Sun open up their core Java intellectual property and allow anyone do whatever they damn well please with it.… (link)

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