From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jun 6 6:20: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from agnostic.union.cynic.net (24-29-157-20.nyc.rr.com [24.29.157.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB4DA37B665 for ; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 06:19:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cjs@cynic.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by agnostic.union.cynic.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09981; Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:19:47 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: agnostic.union.cynic.net: cjs owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 09:19:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Curt Sampson X-Sender: cjs@agnostic.union.cynic.net To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: Mark Abene , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: JDK status? In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D75EA@l04.research.kpn.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Koster, K.J. wrote: > At this time, everyone is free to download the patches and build his own JDK > after signing the SCSL. Even without a binary distribution option, we can > make a killer port out of this baby. Sure, but what's the point if nobody can use it. Most of the world is not interested in getting a source license and building it themselves. > Nate Williams just made a unofficial, off-the-record, speculative > pre-announcement on freebsd-java. Basically he says that at JavaOne there > should be a happy surprise for Java/FreeBSD people. Yeah, but this worries me, because where does this leave the NetBSD folks? I hope this isn't going to be `FreeBSD gets to join the little clique with Linux whilst all other free software is left out in the cold.' cjs -- Curt Sampson 917 532 4208 http://www.netbsd.org Human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we long to move the stars. --Gustave Flaubert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message