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Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

URL: RMS on Video

At 11:40 AM on Nov 13, 2006, Rick Ross wrote:


Watch the video, it's brief

Richard Stallman: "I think Sun has, well with this contribution, have contributed more than any other company to the free software community, in the form of software. And it shows leadership - it's an example I hope others will follow."

Wow! If you wait long enough, you'll see just about everything in the Java world!

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1 . At 12:47 PM on Nov 13, 2006, Brian Cunningham wrote:
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Re: Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

I think it's great that Sun had the guts to release Java under the GPL - I really expected it to be CDDL or some other obscure or rarely-used license. It's certainly a welcome surprise.

I will admit, however, that I'm a little ambivalent about Stallman's approval of the release under the GPL: many comments he's made in the past make me think he is turning into something of an anachronism.
"The easy, familiar approach often has nothing in it's favor except that it requires less thinking" -Michael Abrash
2 . At 12:52 PM on Nov 13, 2006, Tom wrote:
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Microsoft, are you listening?

Prior to this, Sun and Microsoft were both equally suspect when it came to patents and licenses. After releasing Java under the GPL*, Sun is now in the clear. Congratulations to Sun.

Now the ball is in Microsoft's court to make a comparable commitment on .NET. They don't have to release their source code (nobody really gives a damn), but they should make more than their current wishy-washy commitment on their bogus-but-FUD-inducing patents.
3 . At 10:40 AM on Nov 14, 2006, Haakon Nilsen wrote:
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Re: Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

Doesn't this video work on Linux? My Flash 9 on Firefox 2.0 on Ubuntu Edgy just shows a thing spinning around eternally. I'd really like to see Stallman on this.
4 . At 2:53 PM on Nov 14, 2006, Andy Tripp DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Re: Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

> Doesn't this video work on Linux? My Flash 9 on
> Firefox 2.0 on Ubuntu Edgy just shows a thing
> spinning around eternally. I'd really like to see
> Stallman on this.

Choose whichever response you like:

-1 Troll: Everything works just fine across all Linux distros, and so what you're seeing is just a "perceived problem".

5 Funny: That spinning you're seeing really is Stallman squirming as he tries to say something nice about Sun.
Andy Tripp, CTO and Founder Jazillian - Legacy to 'natural' Java.
5 . At 2:55 PM on Nov 14, 2006, Andy Tripp DeveloperZone Top 100 wrote:
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Re: Microsoft, are you listening?

> Prior to this, Sun and Microsoft were both equally
> suspect when it came to patents and licenses.

Just a suggestion. If you're going to throw your credibility out the window like that, do it at *the end* of the post, not the beginning.
Andy Tripp, CTO and Founder Jazillian - Legacy to 'natural' Java.
6 . At 12:08 PM on Dec 5, 2006, Charles Parra wrote:
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Re: Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

The video should play on Linux, not sure about the specifics of your configuration. The video is also available as a podcast download: http://downloads.feedroom.com/podcasts/t_assets/sun/20061129/ed96087e856f5643220dd76c8c31e3cc7aed9cfa.mp4?site=sun&cid=afb2d17c6a2a7468d873c001d3fd228d7bb587ee&sid=5fc8727c675b62cc27a857e5ba65fd2f4c27b434&pid=ed96087e856f5643220dd76c8c31e3cc7aed9cfa&scdt=2006-04-06T11:43:23-05:00

Or you can subscribe to the podcast feed: http://public-xml.feedroom.com/public_rss/sun_feeds.html?type=podcast
Charles Parra Senior Director Product Management The FeedRoom
7 . At 7:09 AM on Mar 19, 2007, Israr Ahmed wrote:
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Re: Richard Stallman praises Sun on GPL Java (video)

Congratulations Sun.
There certainly have been performance issues with Java. We've been working really hard on them. The primary way we've attacked the problem is with advanced virtual machines. The performance has been getting very nice. --James Gosling, 1999.
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