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Date:      Mon, 5 Jun 2000 20:17:57 -0400
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com>, freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Apple, FreeBSD and the JCP
Message-ID:  <v04210106b561f254c37f@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <20000605232438.55757.qmail@hotmail.com>
References:  <20000605232438.55757.qmail@hotmail.com>

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At 7:24 PM -0400 6/5/00, John Daniels wrote:
>Apple has announced that they intend to track FreeBSD code as part
>of Darwin/OSX.  While Apple is free to do whatever they like with
>FreeBSD code subject to the generous BSD license, just like anyone
>else, it would seem that one would *hope* that those who benefit
>most, would be supportive of the community.

Any decent support of Java would have to include GUI-related
routines.  What Apple needs to do for Java in MacOS 10 (which
is to say, "Quartz/Aqua") is not going to be of any use when
it comes to FreeBSD (which is to say, "X windowing system").

Now, Apple may want to support Java for Darwin, or maybe the
Darwin community outside of Apple may want to make that happen.
I am just noting that the Java-related work Apple does for
MacOS 10 may not be of much help for Java on other BSD's.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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