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Sun opens some Java source code

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In a move that reflects the growing power of the open-source programming movement, Sun Microsystems plans Monday to share a modest chunk of Java source code, an experimental user interface for desktop computers called Project Looking Glass.

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peragrin ·
This is both good news and bad news. Looking Glass has the power to be a great deskop Enviroment, and since it's GPL'ed MS won't be able to steal it.

Unfortunatly unless someone picks it up it will just lay there useless. I can see the next generation of KDE or Gnome using Looking Glass. The question becomes will they. KDE 4.0 3D???

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