Sun to offer Java code to public - Los Angeles Times
Sun to offer Java code to public - Los Angeles Times
The announcement represents one of the largest additions of computer code to the open-source community ? and it marks a major shift for a company that had once fiercely protected the source code used in 3.8 billion cellphones supercomputers medical devices and other gadgets. Santa Clara Calif.-based Sun said it was making nearly all of Java’s source code ? excluding small pockets of code that aren’t owned by Sun ? available under the GNU General …