OpenJDK Governing Board Minutes: 20011/4/21

[Simon Phipps]

On 28 Apr 2011, at 11:48, Mark Wielaard wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 06:56 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>> 
>> The FSF has repeatedly refused to take down RMS´ anti-java rant "the
>> java trap" article even while it has been renedered obsolete years
>> ago, the moment Sun Microsystems decided to release Java SE as Free
>> Software.
> 
> As far as I know the FSF celebrated that release:
> http://www.fsf.org/news/fsf-welcomes-gpl-java.html
> And explained the Java Trap is no more by adding a giant "Headnote" to
> their old article explaining that "the Java language as such is no
> longer a trap":
> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/java-trap.html

Indeed, I have a video of RMS asserting that the Java Trap no longer applies to Java - see http://wmk.me/JavaTrap to view it.

S.