A day after Sun chief Scott McNealy says "open source is our friend," a prominent advocate of the collaborative programming philosophy calls on the company to open Java code. Stephen Shankland worked ...

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Project Harmony aims to create version of Java desktop software with an open-source license--something Sun has resisted in the past. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

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Add Sun's Java server software suite to the company's list of open-source candidates. The company on Thursday issued a statement saying, "Sun is considering open sourcing Java Enterprise System, but ...

Fortify Software and theFindBugs Java error detection project this week unveileda collaborative effort aimed at zapping the bugs of open source softwarecode written ...

Sun's executive vice president of software, Richard Green, reiterated the company's intentions to open source Java at the JavaOne conference yesterday in San Francisco. Green claims that, although the ...

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After much market speculation, Sun Microsystems today announced it will adopt the GNU General Public License (GPL) to govern open source Java. It also releases the first set of source codes to the ...