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

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.

http://www.bluej.org/mrt/?p=21

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