GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java by ZDNet’s David Berlind — Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk’s James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 (Debian Conference) in Oaxtepec, Mexico where, because of that event’s coincidental timing with JavaOne, he was [...]
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GNU/Linux distros get OK to distribute Java by ZDNet’s David Berlind — Here in San Francisco, as I returned to my hotel from dinner with Redmonk’s James Governor last evening, I bumped into Sun’s chief open source officer Simon Phiipps who himself was just fresh off a flight from DebConf 6 (Debian Conference) in [...]
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About Me
These are the ramblings of Jon Tillman.
so how exactly do you debunk a myth by just putting a headline that denies something that just became a fact? weird.
The myth is that Java isn’t legally available for Linux. The truth is that it now is.
Seems pretty clear to me.
Andn no, I’m not the Jon who writes this blog.
I am the Jon who writes the blog. The post perhaps could have been clearer, and for that I apologize. There is a myth floating around that Java isn’t legally available for Linux distributions, and until the day this was posted, it was true. When I saw the article on ZDNet I scrapped the original post, explaining why it wasn’t available, and posted a link to the freshly minted story.