Jan. 5th, 2005

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Stallman and Raymond were right: pseudo-free software and pseudo-open source mean proprietary and closed. Sun Microsystems has unilaterally revoked the FreeBSD project's Java license (under the pseudo-open Sun Community Source License), apparently as part of renegotiating all SCSL arrangements. Despite much effort from FreeBSD, it seems Sun can't be bothered arranging another one. See also coverage on JavaLobby and Café au Lait. "Write once, run on any platform Sun likes this week." Is this how they plan to "open source" Solaris?

Edit: The source option remains available, although it requires three separate downloads and installing Linux compatibility and Java for Linux. Because proprietary software is not just evil, it's stupid. (That post being the first statement of Diva's Second Law of Software.)

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