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* From memory, Blackdown is a port of Sun's Java to Linux. It's not open source. It's run by a bunch of volunteers who signed a scary NDA so that they could see Sun's code. It was much more important before Sun had an official Linux port. I'm unclear on how it differs from the official one now. I'm also not sure why none of this is on the blackdown.org site. --[[User:Slamb|Slamb]] 19:10, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
* Sun made binary redistribution possible on September 27th, 1996, according to the [http://web.archive.org/web/19961030091631/www.blackdown.org/java-linux/Information.html an old version of Blackdown's site]. Their website had [http://web.archive.org/web/19971009072030/www.blackdown.org/~sbb/ diffs to the Sun JVM code]. --[[User:Slamb|Slamb]] 19:15, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
If Blackdown is neither free nor open... shouldn't it be removed from the "Free compilers and interpreters" category? [[User:Pcmacman|pcmacman]] 17:06, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
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