[LINK] Time to disable Java again? "Fixing zero-day exploit could take 'two years'"

[Fernando Cassia]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:39 PM, tomk <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:
> Or one could delete all reference to the closed Sun/oracle Java and grab
> the open source version....

Tom, Java *is* open source. Sun open sourced Java in late 2006, as
GPL, thus sparking the OpenJDK project http://openjdk.java.net

Until JDK 6, Sun kept code bases separate, but as of JDK7, OpenJDK is
the reference implementation of JDK7. Which goes to say, fixes to
OpenJDK 7 end up in the JDK7 freeware you download from Oracle.

The only difference being the web browser plug-in component, which Sun
never open sourced,and which in Linux and other platforms is handled
by the IcedTea project, part of OpenJDK.

RedHat, IBM, Apple, Twitter, among others have joined and are
contributing with OpenJDK... RedHat for instance maintains the IcedTea
web browser plug-in to run applets on OpenJDK, and it´s also porting
OpenJDK to the ARM64 platform...


FC



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