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		davidw on July 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems For that matter, the Apache Software Foundation has a Java implementation called 'Harmony', although I'm not sure they're allowed to call it Java.

brianm on July 17, 2009 [–]

That is a sadly long and storied history, which Stephen Colebourne describes best:

http://www.jroller.com/scolebourne/entry/sun_apache_ip_in_pi...

There is some hope that the legal shenanigans will stop once ORCL finishes taking ownership of JAVA.

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