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Download sun java GPL’d source code

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: December 27, 2007]

Yet another victory for Open Source software! Woot!!

First Solaris (OpenSolaris) and OpenOffice.org was made open source and now Java. Thanks to Linux (other open source oses) and open source movement.

Sun Microsystems Inc. said on Monday that it will make its Java software available for free to the open-source community, though it will continue to sell and support standardized versions of the product.

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=> OpenJDK Source Releases/Download link (includes Java programming language compiler source, jtreg test harness for the JDK test framework and Java HotSpotVirtual Machine source under GPL version 2.0)

=> Check out David Herron's Blog for more info and slashdot thread :)

It is time to learn Java!

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