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Sun set to offer Java to open-source community
Created: 07/18/2006
Video description: At JavaOne in San Francisco, Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz\r\nand Rich Green, the company's new executive vice president of software,\r\nofficially announced that Java will become open source. Green encouraged\r\nthe Java community to participate in the process.

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