The open-source clearing house continues as Sun releases Java under a General Public License (version 2). The source code became available today. I’m a bit surprised this didn’t make bigger news and there isn’t any clear indication of what impact it might have.
For those of you that like to plan ahead,? it’s apparently planning time? for web 4.0.? Web 4.0 is now in various planning stages among various thought leaders across the web. The semantic web, ontology proliferation and the learning web are all in play.
Finally, the University of Virginia has joined the Google Books project. All the links are all here at wowtechminute.com.
From Aloha Workshops on the Big Island of Hawaii, this is Brent Norris for the World Organization of Webmasters and the WOW Technology Minute.
Sun Opens Java : Web Event at Sun.com
http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/index.jsp
Sun picks GPL license for Java code (Martin LaMonica/ZDNet)
http://www.techmeme.com/061113/p38#a061113p38
Sun to Serve Up Free Java
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/topnews/wpn-60-20061113SuntoServeUpFreeJava.html
Web 4.0: Start planning now
http://www.w3.org/2006/Talks/06-08-steven-web40/
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