From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 7 19:12:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28495 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:12:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from jason01.u.washington.edu (jason01.u.washington.edu [140.142.70.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA28488 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:12:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jcwells@u.washington.edu) Received: from saul6.u.washington.edu (root@saul6.u.washington.edu [140.142.82.1]) by jason01.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id TAA43330; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:12:14 -0800 Received: from S8-37-26.student.washington.edu (S8-37-26.student.washington.edu [128.208.37.26]) by saul6.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id TAA19288; Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:12:13 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 1998 19:11:49 -0800 (PST) From: "Jason C. Wells" X-Sender: jason@s8-37-26.student.washington.edu Reply-To: "Jason C. Wells" To: FreeBSD-chat cc: Ken Keeler Subject: IBM Java Compiler Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In case anyone doesn't read slashdot, IBM released it's source for it's Jikes compiler. I don't know jack err java but this sounds like a cool deal. This is entry number two for IBM into the Open Source foray. They have adopted Apache and now have released a previously proprietary piece of software. Wouldn't it be poetic if free software along with supportive companies like IBM dethrone MS. :) This smells like a win for free software. Big Blue has not only endorsed free software by using Apache but it gave a big chunk back in this compiler. Is this as big a deal as I think it is? Does the availability of this software help FreeBSD java efforts? Catchya Later, | UW Mechanical Engineering Jason Wells | http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jcwells/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message