Richard Stallman's shackles: The open source Java acid test?
,----[ Quote ]
| Back in April of 2004, in an essay titled Free But Schackled - The
| Java Trap, Stallman wrote:
|
| "If your program is free software, it is basically ethical--but there
| is a trap you must be on guard for. Your program, though in itself free,
| may be restricted by non-free software that it depends on. Since the
| problem is most prominent today for Java programs, we call it the Java
| Trap."
`----
http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=3933
Earlier today/last night:
Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL
,----[ Quote ]
| First, Sun Microsystems wouldn't do it. Then Sun teased us with it. Now,
| on Nov. 13, Linux-Watch has learned that Sun will finally open-source
| its implementations of Java under the GNU GPL v2.
`----
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2055994,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03129TX1K0000616
I'm still a victim (prisoner) of the only proprietary software that I use...
MATLAB for Red Hat Linux.
|
|
