From owner-freebsd-java Wed Jul 4 16:20:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-java@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.carnagecopia.com (absinthe.carnagecopia.com [216.18.9.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5778837B406 for ; Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:20:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from random@carnagecopia.com) Received: (qmail 88674 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2001 23:20:39 -0000 Received: from firewall-vancouver.carnagecopia.com (HELO axiontwist.carnagecopia.com) (66.38.134.97) by absinthe.carnagecopia.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2001 23:20:39 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 16:19:13 -0700 From: Vincent Janelle To: "Koster, K.J." 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> Organization: Goblin Studios X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.5.0pre2 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-java@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-java" in the body of the message