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SAN FRANCISCO--Sun Microsystems will open-source Java--it just has to figure out how to do it, company executives said Tuesday. Open-source advocates have urged Sun for years to open-source the Java ...

Sun Microsystems announced Tuesday it has finished the process of making the bulk of its core Java technology available as open-source software under the GNU general public license version 2 (GPLv2).

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San Francisco (January 23, 2001) — Microsoft has agreed to pay Sun Microsystems US $20 million as part of an agreement to settle a bitter, 3-year legal battle over its use of Sun’s Java programming ...