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Date:      Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:19:13 -0700
From:      Vincent Janelle <random@carnagecopia.com>
To:        "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>
Cc:        freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Mircosoft doesn't sleep
Message-ID:  <20010704161913.1b9cebcb.random@carnagecopia.com>
In-Reply-To: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D22@l04.research.kpn.com>
References:  <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9D22@l04.research.kpn.com>

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> This is interesting news, for sure.
> 
> The problem with Microsoft's .net port to FreeBSD is going to be that a) you
> can only use it for non-commercial use (sounds like the GPL to me, but I'm
> no lawyer).

Woah.  Wtf?  The GPL states nothing about being able to use it for commercial or
non-commercial use.  It stipulates source code redistribution, and protection
(or limiation?) of intellectual property, not limitations on use.  But this is
the wrong forum for such a discussion.

> 
> The second problem is that very, very likely you'll need a Windows server in
> the area for the whole shebang to work. Unless, of course, you are insane
> enough to think that Microsoft is going to port active directory and ms sql
> server to FreeBSD as well.

Active directory is an authentication scheme.. Nothing will stop you from
using/writing your own interfaces for C#.  Nothing else states that you have to
use MSSQL either.

Stop making unqualified statements about programming languages that aren't
released yet.

> 
> In any case, let's see what we have first; a c# compiler, or an official
> JDK. My money's on the latter, but I hope Sun sees it that way too.

My money is on the C# compiler.  Sun only made 'official' releases of the jdk
for linux due to market pressure.

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