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ZeroGravitas on Jan 13, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: 10 Questions for John Gruber Regarding H.264, WebM

OpenJDK is the Sun (now Oracle) controlled distribution under open source terms. GCJ (which isn't really a "Java" as you'd normally think of it) was put on the backburner by RedHat once OpenJDK became available.

chaosfox on Jan 13, 2011 [–]

I would gladly accept an OpenFlash, even if the code is from Adobe, at least I would know what exactly I'm running on my machine.

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