From owner-freebsd-java Thu Dec 9 16:44:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from sith.wlcg.com (209-9-101-127.sdsl.cais.net [209.9.101.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3FF315707 for ; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 16:44:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from joe@wlcg.com) Received: from localhost (joe@localhost) by sith.wlcg.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA28828; Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:45:12 -0500 X-Authentication-Warning: sith.wlcg.com: joe owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 19:45:12 -0500 (EST) From: Joe Yandle To: chris@tourneyland.com Cc: java@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: We're #1!!! In-Reply-To: <19991209191342.5711.qmail@web902.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > the "Support FreeBSD" RFE is the #1 RFE in the land! > Apparantly, the Linux RFE got purged, either based on > age, or the fact that they cheated. (Or maybe it got > addressed.) Sun released a linux JDK a couple of days ago. It was basically the blackdown JDK with some bug fixes and enhancements. > Whatever the circumstances, congrats to > whomever's idea this was (I forget) and to all those > who voted. > > And, now that we've seen the kind of numbers we can > get to help Sun support Java (even when it required > joining the JDC), does anyone have any other ideas? > Start petitioning IBM ;) Joe Yandle Internet Programmer Westlake Consulting Group To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message