Free and Open Source Software

Sun contributed most of the documentation and online help to the GNOME desktop project. Sun's contribution of the accessibility framework to GNOME allows desktop Linux to achieve Section 508 compliance (to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities).

Sun has been a long term contributor to the X.Org project developing the widely-used X Windows system. Sun hosted the X.Org Developer Conference on its campus this year and a Sun employee serves on the X.Org Board of directors.

Sun has been a major contributor to the work of the Mozilla foundation. Sun has developers have been working on Section 508 compliance and internationalization (I18N). Sun has also provided funding to this end.

Sun has a proud history of supporting open standards, from TCP/IP in the 1980s and NFS in the 1990s to the Open Document Format (ODF) today. Sun retains an unshakeable faith that open standards are the only guarnatee of a healthly, hetereogenous software ecosystem.