> Then someone decided to open source the result The Sun JVM was open-sourced in 2006-2007 [1] - 10 years after the introduction of the platform and after it w

> Then someone decided to open source the result The Sun JVM was open-sourced in 2006-2007 [1] - 10 years after the introduction of the platform and after it was already wildly popular. [1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20140527220942/http://grnlight.net/index.php/programming-articles/115-javaone-sun-the-bulk-of-java-is-open-sourced https://web.archive.org/web/20140527220942/http://grnlight.n...