This morning Sun made a suprise move and announced that their well gaurded and loved Java source code will be fully available by March 2007. They are releasing it under the GPLv2 license which makes it on par with the Linux Kernel.
The discussions on this are already speculating what this means, is it the death throw of a dieing company, are they desperate to fight for the ground that Microsoft has been fighting against them? I cansee this being a great move as now many Linux distributions can include it on the install media without making you jump through hoops worrying about licensing.
I’ll update with discussion links as I find them, but Slashdot is a good place as any to start with 
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