Sun changing Java to open-source
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omputer server and software maker Sun Microsystems Inc. said Monday that it had begun to make its Java technology an open-source software project available for free on the Internet. Making Java an open-source project allows programmers from around the world to examine, modify, fix bugs and contribute new features in Java’s underlying code. It requires that any changes be made public.
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 cell phones, supercomputers, medical devices and other gadgets.
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