Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 09:23:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: didier@omnix.fr.org To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960823091235.15974B-100000@zapata.omnix.fr.org> In-Reply-To: <199608222354.RAA04123@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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On Thu, 22 Aug 1996, Nate Williams wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 17:54:11 -0600 (MDT) > From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> > To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> > Cc: Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, didier@omnix.fr.org, > hackers@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 > > > And given Sun's recent 'attitude' regarding Java, there is *very* little > chance of one happening. Sun is getting very propriatary (sp?) about > Java, and the Linux developers were forced to remove their port of the > JDK from ftp sites after being 'contacted' by Sun's lawyers. > I dont like sun's attitude but I think that's impossible to ignore java. there are probably many possibilities but I'm not sure of the right one there are several questions - is kaffe able to totally replace the native java ? (I heard many horrible about kaffe) - is it possible to write a x86 solaris emulator for FreeBSD ? - are there any possibilities to only distributes the patch to the original source file for java (with no line of the original sdk file in the diffs) > Sun is no longer 'open' about Java now that they've got enough mindshare > to keep momentum going. It's a pretty cheap way of doing business by > first promising openness and then renigging on it, but it's only too > common in business nowadays. > > > Nate > -- Didier Derny | My computer is Microsoft Free... didier@omnix.fr.org | FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE site
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