Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 23:41:33 +1100 From: David Gerard <fun@thingy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sun revokes FreeBSD license for Java Message-ID: <20050106124133.GD2280@thingy.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <667459872.20050106025318@wanadoo.fr> References: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEPAEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> <41DC44BB.8020608@vilot.com> <667459872.20050106025318@wanadoo.fr>
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Anthony Atkielski (atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) [050106 12:53]: > Tom Vilot writes: > TV> I prefer to use just about any other tool (except, of course, for > TV> JSP/.NET, etc). Python, Perl, ... any other tool will do the jobs I > TV> need done and I can avoid the sluggishness of Java, the licensing > TV> ambiguities, and the dependence on a company that is *not* a > TV> software company to begin with! > I tend to agree. Are people still using Java? Perl seems to do just > about everything. Commercially, yes - particularly for in-house apps, not anything distributed outside. My job is adminning Solaris and Red Hat boxes which are basically running an in-house platform with a pile of custom apps on top, both written in Java. Java's gratis-proprietary license is certainly good enough for our purposes businesswise, and it's cross-platform enough that we've had very little trouble sliding Solaris out from underneath and replacing it with Red Hat (HPaq servers offering a bit more bang for the buck). But you won't see much open-source Java until the license isn't odious. OpenOffice.org only uses it because of Sun. - d.
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