So, remind us, what happened last year at JavaOne 2007?
Fulfilling its promise to the world exactly one year later, Sun released a fully buildable implementation of the JDK in the OpenJDK Community. Specifically: • Sun announced that almost all of the JDK was available under the GPL 6.5 million lines of code, one of the largest and most important contributions to the Free Software community in history. • In conjunction with the NetBeans 6 preview release, Sun created pre-built Netbeans projects to make it easy and intuitive to dive into the OpenJDK code base, making NetBeans and Sun Studio the gateways to participation in the OpenJDK project. • Sun announced the formation of the OpenJDK Interim Governance Board with the charter to write and gain ratification for a Constitution for the OpenJDK Community, based on transparency and an open, meritocratic process. The IGB invites active participation in this process, with the goal that OpenJDK governance will be representative of a broad and inclusive consensus reflecting the will of the whole c
