Sun promises to open Java - but when?

Nothing beats a good story at your own conference. It's easy to whip up a crowd when they are all your core supporters, so it's no surprise that when Richard Green, Sun's executive vice president of software, announced at JavaOne that Sun's going to make Java open source, the crowd went wild. As wild as a room full of Java developers is going to get on the floor of the Moscone anyway... Unfortunately, no one at Sun is telling a) how this is going to happen, or b) when this is going to happen. The message is just, "hey, trust us, we're SO doing this." So my question is, how long before we get to call open source Java vaporware? Well there are still a few days to go at JavaOne, so maybe they're saving the best for last.... I have to say it's a little creepy when even James Gosling's blog makes no mention of Java as open source. The only "open" he's talking about? The opening, after much technical difficulty, of the Slot Car Programming Challenge. Whoopee! I agree with Ars Technica: quick yammering about OSS and just do it already...

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