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Phipps, Sun's chief open source officer, said the transition to open source Java would come in a matter of months, not years. What he meant was that it would happen within the next 10 or 11 months. However, what attendees quickly trumpeted to the blogosphere was that the move was imminent. So Phipps had to go back to the press to clarify that it wouldn't be happening quite that soon. So began a fresh round of concerns about whether Sun was dragging its heels on open-sourcing Java.
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