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Free Open Source Software Is Costing Vendors $60 B-> 0

Submitted by Alphager on Wednesday April 16 2008, @11:06AM

Alphager writes "The relatively unknown Standish group has released a study claiming that Free Open Source Software is raising havoc in the IT industry and allready cost more than 60 billion US$."
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Sun to Open-Source Java Under GPL

Submitted by Alphager on Sunday November 12 2006, @08:55AM

Alphager writes " Eweek is reporting that Sun will Open-Source Java under the GPLv2. The portions of Java to be released are:
JAVA SE
JAVA ME
JEE

This includes the Java Runtime Environment and the Java SDK, which should ease the integration of Java into linux-distributions.

Netbeans and Catfish will be relicensed under the CDDL and the GPLv2.
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