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		irons on Nov 12, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Oracle and Apple Announce OpenJDK Project for Mac ... How many years-old projects with deep hooks into a proprietary OS, written with no intention of ever being open sourced, would or could be opened on any reasonable timeframe? Any precedents spring to mind?

lr on Nov 12, 2010 [–]

WebObjects...? And still not open. But perhaps not the precedent you were looking for...

chc on Nov 12, 2010 | [–]

I don't think WebObjects has a lot of internal system hooks, does it?

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