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LUGM Open Week — What are you Doing???

Ankur — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 11:50:11 +0000

Linux User’s Group Manipal is organizing a Open Week, which will comprise of a number of different activities with Install Fest as the base, event informating could be found at http://wiki.lugmanipal.org/LUGM_open_week discussion regarding Open week are now open at http://forums.lugmanipal.org/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=190

There are lot of things that need to be done so if you are willing to help plz contact lugmanipal[at]gmail.com

PS – this is just an initial announcement, detailed announcement will be made after things are finalized….

Java is completely open now

Ankur — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 16:16:14 +0000

At JavaOne in May, 2006, Sun Microsystems announced they were going to release Java as free software under the terms of the GPL. The size of the task (6.5 million lines of code) was only eclipsed by the size of the opportunity for Java as a free and open technology.

At JavaOne in May 2007, Sun announced that the work was largely completed and so OpenJDK was launched. What was less newsworthy was the fact that on release – OpenJDK still relied on code that was encumbered – between 4 and 5 percent of the code was closed, non free source that Sun didn’t own.