On 1/28/07, Debarshi Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com wrote:
BlueJ is a free software IDE which aims to teach object-oriented programming and Java to beginners and is developed by University of Kent and Deakin University with support from Sun Microsystems.
a small correction: BlueJ is not a "Free Software" as its licence (http://www.bluej.org/about/license.html) prohibits its users to study, modify and redistribute the system.
The following link tells you about how it is being threatend by Microsoft through software patents. http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
This post clearly shows how software patents affect non-free software as well and why we should raise our voice against software patents.
Ref: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/fighting-software-patents.html http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/en/m/intro/index.html
~vimal