Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:46:37 -0700 From: merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) To: Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-java-request@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-java@freebsd.org Subject: Re: this is probably a little touchy to ask... Message-ID: <86pqwmlhdu.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=7sTm12NUdAeRrX1ZUsSveS9k7dk=hc%2BgWV9jK@mail.gmail.com> (Jules Gilbert's message of "Thu, 9 Sep 2010 17:02:58 -0400") References: <AANLkTi=7sTm12NUdAeRrX1ZUsSveS9k7dk=hc%2BgWV9jK@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>>> "Jules" == Jules Gilbert <jules.stocks@gmail.com> writes: Jules> Now an opinion. If Oracle isn't going to help us, we should look Jules> around for an alternative, even inventing something else, something Jules> that isn't Sun/Oracle/Java. You mean something that looks like Java but isn't Java? That's precisely what the Oracle v. Google suit is about. Dangerous road to go down at this point. Or do you mean something that isn't even Java, but has a lot of Java-like features? I think you're describing "everything else already available in production". Plenty of choices. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <merlyn@stonehenge.com> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>; Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion
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