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BlueJ and Greenfoot open source – Why Now?

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Michael Kölling
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A few days ago I promised to write down some of our thoughts about the open sourcing of BlueJ and Greenfoot.

In the past, we had consciously decided to keep the source closed. Now we decided differently. So that brought about the change?
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Posted in BlueJ, Greenfoot, Software Tools, Teaching | Tagged BlueJ, Greenfoot, Open source | 3 Replies

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