Blu-ray victory to spur Java development, says James Gosling
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James Gosling, widely accepted
as the "father of Java", has said that Blu-ray's victory should spur further
use of the Java programming language to bring greater interactivity to discs.
Raising the slightly embarrassing point that Profile 2.0 Blu-ray players are
still extremely scarce, Gosling told ZDNet Australia, "There's actually this
Profile 2.0 spec for Blu-ray, which almost all of the Blu-ray players out now
don't implement...that adds all this networking ability. So you can actually
use a Blu-ray box to do things other than play Blu-ray discs. You can do things
that are hybrids between playing discs and content over the network."