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.
The following link tells you about how it is being threatend by Microsoft through software patents.
http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21
Regards, Debarshi
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
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On Sunday 28 January 2007 11:30 PM, Debarshi Ray cobbled together some glyphs to say:
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.
BlueJ is a ``Freeware'' not a ``Free Software''.
Regards, BG
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2007/1/28, Debarshi Ray debarshi.ray@gmail.com:
The following link tells you about how it is being threatend by Microsoft through software patents.
Microsoft withdraws the application
"patent application was a mistake and one that should not have happened. To fix this, Microsoft will be removing the patent application in question. Our sincere apologies to Michael Kölling and the BlueJ community." - Dan Fernandez's, Lead Product Manager - Visual Studio Express
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2007/01/28/update-response-to-bluej-p...
Great to see Microsoft doing the right thing.
Cheers Praveen