If you've ever wanted to watch a massive Internet forum battle as it unfolds, you must check out this story that just popped up on Slashdot. It points out that Sun has introduced a new garbage collector for Java 1.6.0--14, but it is demanding payment for use in production environments. That's probably a gross overstatement and over-simplification, but the article touched a nerve. Already there is a lot of debate in Slashdot as to the continued plans for openness in a post-Oracle world. This will surely be seen as an incendiary point for Java folk who have time to scream at each other online.
Best comment so far:
by jlechem (613317) on Friday May 29, @03:02PM (#28142063) Homepage Journal
Seriously Java?
You used to be cool.
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by thomasdz (178114) on Friday May 29, @03:05PM (#28142099)
In this day and age of "green" businesses...
Shouldn't we have "recycling collection" instead of "garbage collection"?
C'mon guys all those big 1MB and 4MB malloc()s are being shipped over to third world countries to be disassembled into bits and bytes. We should be recycling things HERE.... not throwing them away for Java to come and pick up.