"..my opinion is that we can expect Sun to release Java as FLOSS a bit sooner with Schwartz as CEO. Yes, free (official) Java will happen, it’s just a matter of time."
Guess what! Some pieces are missing but many of those will be replaced quite rapidly. A world class (in many aspects, the GC being one of them) virtual machine (thank you SableVM, Kaffe and others for being there for us in the meantime), a (the) complete class library (Classpath will be remembered as a tremendous effort, although not complete) and a solid compiler (for which ECJ, the Eclipse compiler, still is a good alternative). Good stuff, thank you.
