Simon Willison’s Weblog

Java Is Free. GPL2 no less. Getting Jython up to speed is now even more important.

# 7:35 am

Avi Bryant: smalltalk.rb. Bootstrapping Ruby on a Smalltalk VM in 65 lines of code (using JRuby).

# 11:16 am

Sun open sources Java SE, ME, and Glassfish under GPLv2 (via) Pretty detailed analysis, including why they chose GPLv2.

# 11:46 am

Spiritual Research into Addictions. This gets increasingly crazy as you scroll down the page.

# 11:54 am

JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya. When to use the new keyword, by Douglas Crockford.

# 5:35 pm

Ryan Tomayko: Shackled But Free. Did you know James Gosling caused the creation of the GPL?

# 6:29 pm