While acknowledging obstacles remain, a Sun official on Tuesday left open the possibility that Sun might offer its Java programming language under an open source format. While acknowledging obstacles ...

Any developer who is motivated enough can contribute to the development of the popular programming language Java was released in 1995 by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems. And in the nearly 30 years ...

Simon Phipps, chief open source officer for Sun, says that the company is ruminating over two major issues: how to keep Java compatible, and how to ensure that no particular company uses market forces ...

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