Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 19:14:12 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: didier@omnix.fr.org Cc: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@glue.umd.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: JDK 1.02 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960823190956.18602B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960823091235.15974B-100000@zapata.omnix.fr.org>
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On Fri, 23 Aug 1996 didier@omnix.fr.org wrote: > 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) Not yet. It also lacks many features (graphics support) > > - is it possible to write a x86 solaris emulator for FreeBSD ? Yes (the trouble is writing it). It would be nice even if not for Java. The other possibility is win32 emulator :-) > > - 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) > Not an easy one - everyone will have to fetch the source and get a source licence. And - the patch files diff generates actually do include lines of the original text of the files... Sander > > > > 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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