You have no idea.
The problem is that the Java spec says you only get all the IP and patent licenses granted if you pass the TCK in 6 months time from releasing a beta. But you have no way to access the TCK if Oracle doesn't give it to you! And despite Suns promise to do so, they refused to give it to us (nor to anyone else who doesn't sign a completely restrictive NDA and Field of Use restriction).

Fazit: even if the code is under GPLv2, you cannot simply fork OpenJDK currently! (At least not without getting your pants sued off you)

Ross and I recently talked with the chief of the FSFE at a conference and showed him the Java spec and Java TCK license wording and the problems with that. He promised us to talk with RMS about it because the might use the word GPL in the TCK-license in a misleading way. Btw, there is a good reason why there is now a GPLv3 which has an explicit IP and patent grant clause (as the ALv2 has). So there is no war between FSF and ASF but exactly the opposite.

LieGrue,
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It's easy to say it was an overreaction, but imagine what would have happened if one of the planes would have crashed into the ocean or even worse into populated areas? THEN they would have not only sued aeronautic control centres for letting them fly but also a lot of people would have died. Having studied law myself I can honestly say that a pretty huge amount of advocates are dicks which only want to make as much money out of anything as they can.

seems like /. is having a unicode problem? ;) ÂC -> uC -> micro controller

yes, and also AMD made them: Am29000

From the 'old' RISC cores, there are only 3 really alive, and all of them mainly in the ÂC area:

.) Power (lot used in the automotive area from Motorola)
.) MIPS (R3000 aka 3k for 32 bit and R4000 aka 4k for 64 bit)
.) Acorn (remember the Archimedes?) ARM 7 and 9 cores which are now used in most handset devices.

Most conversation is nowadays done per email, and most docs are generated.

When do you really need a printout of a document which is not actually generated or written in DocBook or another format resp. not sent per email?

Maybe some contract or FAX, but it's not that commonly used as it was a decade ago where we wrote virtually everything using a Wordprocessor.